Husband, wife in Ohio battle breast cancer, raise awareness of male cases of disease

MONROE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes.

Mike and Barbara Welsh of Monroe in southwestern Ohio each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.

Sixty-three-year-old Barbara had surgery in January and is going through chemotherapy.

After surgery in July, her sixty-two-year-old husband is determining the next step in his recovery, which may include chemotherapy and radiation.

Mike Welsh says he is speaking up about his cancer to make other men aware that breast cancer is not just something that can strike women.

The couple, married 41 years, laugh about their experience as much as possible to help stave off the depression that sunk in after their diagnoses.