I’m Eric—and I beat breast cancer.

Yeah, I know. It surprised me too. At first, I was embarrassed. I thought, “Come on, I’m a guy. I’ve got a master’s from Yale. I’m smart. Breast cancer is something women get—sadly—but not guys like me.”

Turns out, I wasn’t quite as smart as I thought.

I noticed a lump on the left side of my chest. And then I did nothing. For more than ten months, I ignored it, brushed it off as “probably just a cyst”—even though I didn’t really know what a cyst was. Denial was easy. Facing it was harder.

When I finally brought it up to my doctor, he didn’t miss a beat. He said, “Men get breast cancer too. Same plumbing—just different fluids running through the pipes.”

Next thing I knew, I was scheduled for a mammogram. I asked, “Can we at least call it a man-o-gram?

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