My boss didn't believe I had breast cancer - the dad who went to hospital with an asthma attack and ended up having a mastectomy

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A dad who didn’t realise men could get breast cancer was shocked to find out he had it after suffering an asthma attack. Gordon Allen, 61, was rushed to Salford Royal in an air ambulance in 2006, but when doctors saw his chest, they ‘hit the roof’.

At the time, Gordon, from Swinton, was 45, and says there was little information out there on male breast cancer. And when he told his boss he’d been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer, he refused to believe him and demanded paperwork as evidence. READ MORE:Man dies and brother-in-law loses his legs after pet dog 'nipped' them He’s now speaking out about his diagnosis in a bid to make men aware that it can happen to them as well as women, as part of the Men Get Breast Cancer Too campaign