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Volume 12, Issue 4, Week of January 26, 2015
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Survivor
Men can have breast cancer, too Andrew Pratt is the ambassador for this year’s Bust A Move fundraiser (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express ndrew Pratt is a breast cancer survivor who has been giving back as a volunteer almost since his diagnosis in April 2009. Through a number of coincidences — happy ones, he says — you might say volunteering became his calling. He did an interview just before the C95 Radio Marathon for Breast Cancer in 2009. As he was driving home from his final chemotherapy treatment, Pratt heard the interview on the air. “That was quite exciting,” he said. “It inspired me to continue on as long as they needed.” Whether it was with the radio marathon or with the annual Relay for Life, Pratt has
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lent his time and voice to cancer initiatives. He and his wife, Lynne, recently agreed to be the ambassadors for this year’s Bust a Move (BAM) fundraiser. Pratt was invited last fall to a kickoff meeting for BAM. He didn’t know what to expect and what the expectations were for an ambassador. He knew organizers were interested in having a male breast cancer survivor as a representative. Breast cancer is uncommon in males. According to the Canadian Cancer Society’s estimated statistics for 2014, 210 men in Canada will be diagnosed. Of those, 60 will die from the cancer. An estimated 25,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, with approximately 5,000 dying.
“I was treated very well at the kickoff,” Pratt said. “I met with Arla Gustafson and Steve Shannon, the leaders of their respective hospital foundations, and they had their assistants talk with me about the role and what they are trying to accomplish. “This is where (another) coincidence comes in. I was driving home from that and the radio marathon was on again. And they played a clip of me from two years ago. I heard it again and went, ‘OK, there is some sort of message here.’ I thought about it over the weekend and told my wife (Lynne), ‘I’m going to give it a shot.’” Pratt, a 54-year-old engineer at International Road Dynamics, is now a five-year survivor. He noticed a small lump on his right
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breast early in 2008. “I was not concerned because I had had one about eight years before in my left breast. I went to the doctor with that one fairly quickly. He checked it out and said, ‘There is nothing to worry about it; keep an eye on it and maybe start to take some vitamins.’ And it went away. “So now there is one on the right side, same sort of deal. Then, I was on a business trip and I noticed the top of the lump had grabbed the skin and created a little dimple. And I went, ‘Well, that’s not good.’ ” It wasn’t good. “So as soon as I got back from the business trip, I went to see my doctor and he sent me for an ultrasound that day. (Continued on page 4)
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