Teresa and Billy Mayo have shared almost everything during their 46-year marriage. But the couple recently shared something they never anticipated: breast cancer.
Teresa was diagnosed in 2018, and Billy in 2020.
“We thought we were done with breast cancer when Teresa finished treatment,” Billy says. “It never occurred to me that I could get breast cancer, too.”
Mammogram signals the first signs of trouble
The...
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Spotting the lump
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There are approximately 2,200 men in the United States who are
diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and I am one of them.
Until...
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