When Thurston Murray was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1983, there was nothing more than a small medical journal entry available on the subject, a study conducted on 12 men in Southern Africa who had breast cancer.

There was very little, because at the time, there weren’t enough cases, approximately 0.5 percent or less of all breast cancer cases involved men. It was also something most men didn't want to talk about.

Today, it still affects less than 1 percent of men, or 2,030 per year, but when it strikes, male breast cancer can be just as life-threatening and altering as its female version, which initially started the special Breast Cancer Awareness Month each October.