{"id":14848,"date":"2019-11-05T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=285348"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:53","slug":"mathew-knowles-father-of-beyonce-fought-and-beat-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mathew-knowles-father-of-beyonce-fought-and-beat-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Knowles, Father Of Beyonc\u00e9, Fought And Beat Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music executive Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyonc\u00e9 and Solange Knowles, has revealed that he is a breast cancer survivor.<\/span>He sat down Michael Strahan<\/a> from Good Morning America<\/em> during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to talk about his diagnosis and his new mission to raise awareness about male breast cancer, especially among black men.<\/span>About 1 out of every 100 cases of breast cancer are found in men, which works out to be about 2,000 men<\/a> in the U.S. every year. Breast cancer is also more common in black men than it is in white men.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/ABC News<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m hoping by me coming here today, speaking out, letting folks know that, you can survive this \u2014 but it has to be early detection. And I can\u2019t over-emphasize the word \u2018early,’\u201d Knowles said.<\/span>Some medical conditions can put men at a higher risk of breast cancer, including cirrhosis, Klinefelter\u2019s, a history of chest radiation, and a family history of breast cancer.<\/span>But even without these risk factors, it is still possible for a man to get breast cancer. Only about 10% of male breast cancer has a genetic component.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/ABC News<\/span>
\n<\/span>Knowles was diagnosed at the age of 67. He noticed that there was a dot of blood on his shirt on a few separate occasions, and became concerned. When he mentioned it to his wife, she said she had noticed a dot of blood on the sheets, too.<\/span>So he immediately went to his doctor. He had a mammogram, and soon found out that he had breast cancer.<\/span>Thankfully, his breast cancer was caught early, and surgery has taken care of it.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/ABC News<\/span>However, Knowles also underwent genetic testing and found out that he has the BRCA2 gene mutation. This increases his risk of not only breast cancer, but melanoma, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer, as well.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe rest of my life, I have to be very much aware and conscious, and do all of the early detection \u2014 constant mammograms, constant prostate exams, constant MRIs \u2014 for the rest of my life,\u201d said Knowles.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/ABC News<\/span>Because he has the BRCA2 gene mutation, this means his children and grandchildren have a chance of having it as well. Since his diagnosis, they have been tested for it as well.<\/span>He says he looks at the world differently now and is much more health conscious. He\u2019s stopped drinking, and started exercising and meditating more.<\/span>Learn more in this video.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music executive Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyonc\u00e9 and Solange Knowles, has revealed that he is a breast cancer survivor.He sat down Michael Strahan from Good Morning America during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to talk about his diagnosis and his new mission to raise awareness about male breast cancer, especially among black men.About 1 out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44397,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14848\/revisions\/44397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}