Does man at risk in breast cancer?

Answer 1

Anyone can get breast cancer, including men...
Background and importance of the study: Most people tend to think of breast cancer as a woman's disease. But men get breast cancer too. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1200 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in American men each year (compared to about 200,000 cases of breast cancer in U.S. women).

We need to learn much more about breast cancer in men, and how it responds to various treatments, in order to improve the diagnosis and therapy for men who have this disease.

This study tried to shed some light on male breast cancer by examining what happened to 93 men with the disease.

Study designs: Portuguese researchers looked over the medical records of 93 men who developed breast cancer between 1974 and 2002. From this information, they determined:

* the most common kinds of breast cancers the men developed,
* the average time between first symptom and diagnosis,
* the most common treatments,
* how long the men lived after treatment, and
* what factors influenced their survival.
Breast cancer in men is a rare disease. Less than 1% of all breast cancers occur in men. In 2005, when 211,400 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States, 1,690 men were diagnosed with the disease.

You may be thinking: Men don't have breasts, so how can they get breast cancer? The truth is that boys and girls, men and women all have breast tissue. The various hormones in girls and women's bodies stimulate the breast tissue to grow into full breasts. Boys' and men's bodies normally don't make much of the breast-stimulating hormones. As a result, their breast tissue usually stays flat and small. Still, you may have seen boys and men with medium-sized or big breasts. Usually these breasts are just mounds of fat. But sometimes men can develop real breast gland tissue because they take certain medicines or have abnormal hormone levels.

Because breast cancer in men is rare, few cases are available to study. Most studies of men with breast cancer are very small. But when a number of these small studies are grouped together, we can learn more from them.

Answer 2

You're grammar is off....

It should read "Are men at risk for breast cancer?"

The answer is YES. There is no specifically known cause for cancer in the breast. Breast cancer most often appears in the fatty tissue on the pectoral muscle, and then metastasizes to the pectoral muscle and then continues to spread to the organs causing death. This is why when a malignant tumor is found (known to be growing) the entire breast is removed (mastectomy) Even benign tumors are removed as a precaution, but removal of the breast is rare in such cases.

Answer 3

Anyone who has a first degree relative with breast cancer is at a somewhat higher risk than if there was no family history. IF they have one of the rare hereditary types that is a different story. Everyone who inherited the gene mutation is at a higher risk for breast and other cancers.

Answer 4

Breast Cancer is not just a woman's issue anymore. More and more men are being diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

If you've found a suspicious lump in your breast area than I would definitely speak with your doctor to determine what it is.

I believe the problem is coming from the foods we eat. Chickens, cows, etc are being given steroids & hormones, to name a few things, that will increase their growth rate so they can be sent to slaughter more quickly. We end up eating the meat from these guys and our bodies have to figure out how to utilitize all of the drugs they've been given.

Try to buy organic, free range meats if you can.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

Yes! everybody is at risk of any cancer including breast cancer fo male. If you lead a healthy lifestyle such as regular excercise and avoid smoking and alcohol, then you are at the lower risk of having one.

Answer 6

Breast cancer occurs in men, too, although the incident is very low. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2006, there will be 1,720 diagnosed cases of breast cancer in men. About 460 will die from it.

Answer 7

Yes, while women are more likely to get breast cancer, men can also get it.

Answer 8

yes men can get breast cancer,so if note a lump See your Dr

Answer 9

Although it's rare in men, I've heard news stories about it in the past on tv. Let your doc check you out, especially if you suspect something is wrong.

Answer 10

Yes, men can also get it, though it's not as common as in women