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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of early detection. Screening exams such as mammograms are encouraged and the goal is to find cancers before they start to spread. Breast cancers that are found because they can be felt tend to be larger and are more likely to have spread beyond the breast. The size of a breast cancer and how far it has spread are important factors in predicting the prognosis for this disease.

The following is a guest post by Jack Willis, author of Saving Jack: A Man’s Struggle with Breast Cancer, who discovered that breast cancer is not just a woman’s disease. Here Willis, a retired adjunct journalism professor at the University of Oklahoma, shares his thoughts on inspirational people he has met during his cancer experience and the lessons he has learned along the way.

I’m a retired journalism instructor and a five-year breast cancer survivor. I know. Guys aren’t supposed to get breast cancer, but about one percent do.

You may have read the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. The book made me think of inspirational people I met during my cancer experience and the lessons they taught me.

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