Meet a male survivor of breast cancer who ‘entered a world of pink’ and lived to blog about it

Men tend to think they’re at slim-to-zero risk of getting breast cancer. So when a man gets it—and the man is a cancer biologist, and he has a mastectomy, and he blogs about it to undeniably illuminating effect—that man is worth hearing from.

NPR shares Oliver Bogler’s story in word and sound: 

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