During a drinking session with friends, a playful gesture by a friend revealed an abnormality on Robert Pfleghardt's chest, a 60-year-old American. This action ultimately allowed him to fight against breast cancer and overcome it. The intrusive gesture of a friend during a drinking session with men revealed a lump in his chest... and likely saved his life. In 2021, Robert Pfleghardt, approaching his sixties, went to Las Vegas with several friends for a drinking session with men. The atmosphere was festive, and the men, who knew each other well, enjoyed an evening with alcohol. For a "good-natured" joke, one of his friends pinched his nipple. But the pain he felt and that persisted after the gesture surprised him. "We are good friends, we had had a few drinks and we were having fun," recalls Robert Pfleghardt, now aged 62. A week later, back in real life, Robert palpated his chest more precisely and discovered a small hardening just next to his nipple. Robert does not panic. In fact, he does not imagine it could be cancer. "It was a bit strange, but I dismissed it. I thought men could not have breast cancer, so I did not pay attention to it," he confides to the magazine People. But the lump does not disappear and Robert makes the wise decision to have it examined. A mammogram and several other examinations later, the verdict is delivered: the man suffers from breast cancer, and the tumor had already spread to a lymph node.