Men Can Get Breast Cancer too!
Many people forget that not only woman can get breast cancer men can too. There are about three different treatment option depending on what stage and situation you have going on. Those three treatments are having surgery to remove the breast tissue, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Signs & Symptoms for men:
- A painless lump, or thickening in your breast tissue
- Changes to the skin covering your breast, such as dimpling, puckering, redness, or scaling.
- Changes to your nipple, such as redness, or scaling, or a nipple that begins to turn inward.
- Discharge form your nipple
Men are not aware that there is a chance that they can get breast cancer. The types of breast cancer that they can get is ductal carcinoma. Ductal carcinoma is cancer that begins in the milk ducts. Majority of cancer found in men are ductal carcinoma. Lobular carcinoma is cancer that begins in the milk-producing glands. Lobular carcinoma is a form of breast cancer that is rarely found in men because men have few lobules in their breast tissue. Other types of breast cancer are Paget's disease and inflammatory breast cancer. Usually breast cancer awareness organizations are always showing women with breast cancer and are not showing men. Every individual woman or man are born with a portion of breast tissue
Lists of Risk Factors
- Older Age
- Exposure to estrogen
- Family history of Breast Cancer
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Liver disease
- Obesity
- Testicle Disease or surgery
Here's a story about a man who was diagnosed with breast cancer!
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