Male Breast Cancer

- August 28, 2010, 3:55 am

When you mention the words breast cancer you would generally think of women who would be prone to this death dealing disease. The real fact is that many men can have breast cancer, and suffer the same ill effects as women do. Male breast cancer may be treated with surgery, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and radiation treatment. Breast cancer in men is associated with diseases or body conditions that increase estrogen exposure or that have effects similar to increased estrogen exposure. Body conditions that decrease levels of the male reproductive hormones, androgens, have also been associated. Male breast cancer is most commonly found through the discovery of a lump or thickening in the breast similar to that occurring in women. Usually this abnormal lump is painless and found