October marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's a disease that strikes mainly women, but doctors say people need to understand it can also happen to men.

Juan Namnun, the baseball coach at Frankford High School in Philadelphia, is also a breast cancer patient.

"Shock, it's hard to put in words when you hear, 'I'm sorry to tell you this, there's no easy way, you have cancer,'" he said. "I knew very little about it; it never crossed my mind."

The 47-year-old Delran, New Jersey, father of three ended up having a double mastectomy.

"It was the hardest thing I ever had to do emotionally and physically," he said.

Namnun said months of physical therapy were torture as simple activities were painful.

"Open refrigerator doors, I couldn't because they took so much muscle mas

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