It was seen that a man was turned away for breast screening test by the hospital because he had no insurance. Scott Cunningham was very careful about his health because in 1990s both his parents were diagnosed with breast cancer.

At the age of 45, Cunningham noticed that he was developing the same symptoms like his father. He was getting knots underneath his chest and nipples. He said that his chest had swollen up and he felt tired and different.

After the symptoms took a bad shape he went to the hospital. He was returned from the hospital saying that the clinic served only women because the Rutherford-Polk-McDowell Health District's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program was funded by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention which only provided service to women between the age of 40 to 60.

"I didn't know what to do at first. I was stunned and confused. Breast cancer used to be just a woman's cancer, but now it's well known men are susceptible", said Cunningham.

It was reported by the American Cancer Society that about 2,000 cases of male breast cancer were seen in the United States in the year 2009. The deaths caused by this disease are around 440.