A moving story

THREE years ago Stephen Smith’s wife noticed something odd about his chest. The nipple was inverted.

A moving story

“When she asked me about it, I wasn’t too worried, but when I added that I’d also found a lump in my left breast, she insisted I get it checked out immediately,” says the 46-year-old mechanical engineer from Celbridge, Co Kildare.

A regular user of the gym in his workplace at Hewlett Packard, Stephen was fit but the diagnosis was swift — he had breast cancer, a one in 1,000 chance for men compared to one in eight for women.

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