While growing up in New Jersey, Vanessa Silva enjoyed memorable daddy-daughter dates with her father, Arnaldo Silva, that morphed into lunch get-togethers and weekend outings with her three children after she moved out on her own.
Although they’ve always been close, there is one thing the pair never expected to share: breast cancer.
“As a man, it’s the last thing that you expect to hear you have when you go to the doctor,” Arnaldo, 67, a retired stationary fireman, tells People, “but I’m proof that it happens. This year alone, 3,000 men will be diagnosed and 400 will die, which I find unacceptable.
Although they’ve always been close, there is one thing the pair never expected to share: breast cancer.
“As a man, it’s the last thing that you expect to hear you have when you go to the doctor,” Arnaldo, 67, a retired stationary fireman, tells People, “but I’m proof that it happens. This year alone, 3,000 men will be diagnosed and 400 will die, which I find unacceptable.
- 10/23/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
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