John W Nick Foundation

A member of the New York Stock Exchange for 35 years, John Nick was a well-educated and respected man. Yet it was a lack of awareness that killed him.

At the age of 58 (in June 1991), John died of breast cancer. Six years before his death, he expressed concern for the inverted nipple on his right breast to a physician who told him not to worry about it. Two years later, another doctor told John not to worry, that it was "nothing." John never knew about male breast cancer, so he listened to his doctors and DID NOTHING.

In the following two years John began experiencing other symptoms. He walked into another doctor's office in Port Washington, New York, who diagnosed John with MALE BREAST CANCER, and scheduled him for an immediate mastectomy. Twenty of his lymph nodes tested positive for malignancy. John underwent six months of chemotherapy and was placed on Tamoxifen for a year, but the breast cancer spread to his bones.

John's death led his daughter, Nancy Nick, to launch a campaign to educate people about MALE BREAST CANCER -- the disease her father never knew a man could get.