Bret Miller is a 24-year-olds, a college graduate, and do normal things like other people of his age do. But one thing that made him different was that he formed one per cent of men who are diagnosed with breast cancer. Miller’s doctors stated that it is a rare thing as he is young.

According to the American Cancer Society estimates, every year about 390 men die form breast cancer and there are about 2,000 new cases of male breast cancer each year.

Miller said, “And even way less are under 65. The average age, what my surgeon said, is 64 to 65. To be 24 and getting it is definitely a shock. It’s one of the cancers, like lung and brain and pancreatic, one of those that can happen to anybody.”

On Sunday the Komen Greater Kansas City Race for the Cure took place and Miller participated in it. The event raised more than $1 million. Since 1992, the annual event raised more than $8 million in support of breast cancer awareness, and treatment.

Miller had found a lump at the age of 17. At a schedule check-up for college, the doctor told him that it was just a calcium buildup until its size changed.

In April Miller had a lumpectomy and in May a mastectomy. He was told that next day that he had breast cancer.

He hopes that more and more awareness is spread about the disease.