A man in Southwest Florida with a ‘painful’ lump in his breast the size of a golf ball has been denied a mammogram screening because he is a man.
Donald Mudd said he's had a painful lump in his right breast over the last several weeks, according to Fox4Now.
He went to see his physician who told him he had a mass in his breast and he needed to get a mammogram.
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Breast cancer?: Donald Mudd from Southwest Florida said he's had a painful lump in his right breast over the last several weeks
Check-up: Mudd went to see his physician who told him he had a mass in his breast and he needed to get a mammogram
Mudd does not have insurance, so he tried to get a mammogram at Fawcett Memorial Hospital, which advertises mammogram specials for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
‘I got transferred a number of times with the same result... that males don't qualify for the mammogram cancer screening,’ Mudd said.
Mudd tried six different organisations to see if he could get a screening, but got the same result.
Kathy Shepard, Breast Health Navigator, said it's harder for men to get help because there's a stigma that breast cancer only affects women.
‘The majority of the people who are screened and treated for breast cancer are women but there are more and more men who have breast cancer issues, and the reality is, not too many people are aware of that,’ Shepard said.
No insurance: The Southwest Florida man said he got turned away from a hospital that is advertising mammogram specials for Breast Cancer Awareness month
Turned away: He said he called at least six different organisations but all denied him access because he was male
Mudd has finally found help from the Susan G. Komen of Southwest Florida organisation, which grants money to clinics to offer screenings for uninsured patients, regardless of gender.
He has an appointment tomorrow at Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Clinic in Port Charlotte, which gets grant money from Susan G. Komen.
About 2,240 new cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed a year, and about 410 men will die from breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
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