Ask any woman what disease she fears most and chances are she’ll say, breast cancer. Ask a man the same question, and that cancer won’t even be mentioned. Senator Edward Brooke is out to change that.
Brooke, the 83-year-old former Republican senator from Massachusetts, is coming out of retirement to become an activist once again. His cause: educating men that they too, can get breast cancer. Edward Brooke should know: after two years of ignoring pain, he was diagnosed with this disease last year. He is now recovering from a radical mastectomy.
Before his diagnosis, Brooke, like most men, was intensely private about his health. But now he says that men’s reluctance to visit the doctor causes too much suffering and too many early deaths. Senator Brooke on why men’s silence can kill.
Guests:
Former Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA)