Jul 8, 2026 · 40 min · 11 segments
Jake Messier says it like it is! As a man diagnosed with breast cancer, he’s decided to shape what that means and how that is perceived, for himself and for all the people out there who don’t know…
Jake MessierGuest
Diane HullettHost
93% of those people don't know that guys can get breast cancer, let alone the general population.
We are at the basic knowledge where we're like, hey, breast cancer is a thing in guys.
But we have a beautiful blueprint to use that women have made over the past 70 years.
But it starts with basic education, right? It starts with, you know, my wife was going in for her mammogram about three weeks ago.
and the woman running i used to say it was a nurse when i was first telling the story and then everybody on social was like it wasn't a nurse because she wouldn't i was like oh my gosh everybody you know the comment section goes crazy there was a woman working the front desk at the mammogram center and my wife being extremely hypersensitive towards breast cancer you know and the woman at the front desk told her that men can't get breast cancer And I've had people with MDs and RNs next to their name that tell me that men can't get breast cancer.
But there's education, not just... public education there's there's medical team education there's oncologists that are working in middle america that do not know that guys can get breast cancer and that is really really troubling um then there's the education of the public but that starts with you know every young girl when they're in sixth grade in health class when they separate the classes and they put you in sixth Every girl is taught, you find a lump, you tell somebody, right? And they're taught that in sixth grade.
And, you know, it needs to go back to basic education, you know, the U.S. Department of Education and health classes, 50-year change, right, to make sure it cycles through all these people.
But that's what's got to happen so that A guy sitting there at 51 years old doesn't go, oh, that's weird.
It puts his arm down for six months because that's ultimately losing that much time probably set me to stage four at the end of the day.
93% of those people don't know that guys can get breast cancer, let alone the general population.
We are at the basic knowledge where we're like, hey, breast cancer is a thing in guys.
But we have a beautiful blueprint to use that women have made over the past 70 years.
But it starts with basic education, right? It starts with, you know, my wife was going in for her mammogram about three weeks ago.
and the woman running i used to say it was a nurse when i was first telling the story and then everybody on social was like it wasn't a nurse because she wouldn't i was like oh my gosh everybody you know the comment section goes crazy there was a woman working the front desk at the mammogram center and my wife being extremely hypersensitive towards breast cancer you know and the woman at the front desk told her that men can't get breast cancer And I've had people with MDs and RNs next to their name that tell me that men can't get breast cancer.
But there's education, not just... public education there's there's medical team education there's oncologists that are working in middle america that do not know that guys can get breast cancer and that is really really troubling um then there's the education of the public but that starts with you know every young girl when they're in sixth grade in health class when they separate the classes and they put you in sixth Every girl is taught, you find a lump, you tell somebody, right? And they're taught that in sixth grade.
And, you know, it needs to go back to basic education, you know, the U.S. Department of Education and health classes, 50-year change, right, to make sure it cycles through all these people.
But that's what's got to happen so that A guy sitting there at 51 years old doesn't go, oh, that's weird.
It puts his arm down for six months because that's ultimately losing that much time probably set me to stage four at the end of the day.
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