JOHN MCKENZIE - ABC NEWS
To his friends and family, 58-year-old Arnaldo Silva, a native New Yorker, is about as rugged as they come — certainly not someone to be concerned about a little “lump” he felt on his chest. Even his doctor dismissed it as nothing more than “fatty tissue.”
“OK. I just figured, ‘fatty tissue,’ nothing to worry about,” Silva said.
But when that so-called “fatty tissue” kept growing, Silva visited a second doctor in December 2006. The images, and the biopsy, told a very different story: Silva had breast cancer. Read more »
JOHN MCKENZIE - ABC NEWS
To his friends and family, 58-year-old Arnaldo Silva, a native New Yorker, is about as rugged as they come — certainly not someone to be concerned about a little “lump” he felt on his chest. Even his doctor dismissed it as nothing more than “fatty tissue.”
“OK. I just figured, ‘fatty tissue,’ nothing to worry about,” Silva said.
But when that so-called “fatty tissue” kept growing, Silva visited a second doctor in December 2006. The images, and the biopsy, told a very different story: Silva had breast cancer. Read more »