Tommy Walsh had no idea that men could get breast cancer until he suffered his own ordeal.
Alarm bells started to ring when Tommy, now 64, found two lumps on his chest in 2002 and went to see a doctor straight, but it took him a while to get an appointment because it was more of an “afterthought”.
Because of his family history, the doctor suggested that he see a consultant at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
Coincidentally, this was the same one his sister had seen, having had a lumpectomy to remove cancerous and normal breast tissue when she was just 31-years-old before making a full recovery.
There was also a history of breast cancer in his family going back another generation, as the Ground Force star’s aunt contracted the disease but left it untreated.” She was in her late 50s when she developed symptoms but she went into denial about the problem,” Tommy told The Mirror in 2013.