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Breast cancer in men often goes undiagnosed

That's the top story in San Antonio today. It's something most of us don't even think about. And, while it's much, much rarer than in women, it's still out there. Here's part of the report from KENS 5:

About 2,000 men this year are expected to get a form of cancer so rare in men, the risk is less than one tenth of one percent.

Often, men who are stricken with this form of cancer don't even know it before it spreads.

"If a man has that sort of situation and he doesn't do anything about it, it's going to kill him," Retired Judge James Barlow said.

Barlow said he was a workout nut his entire life and kept himself in shape, ate reasonably healthy and paid attention to his body. Then one day while in the shower he found something women look for all the time.

"I could actually feel that I had a hard place in there that wasn't supposed to be there," he said.

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