Breast Cancer Affects Women and Men

Breast cancer occurs in women, men can be diagnosis with breast cancer too because men have breast tissue that can develop into breast cancer.

Even though exercising and eating healthier are preventions, breast cancer affects both men and women because men are diagnosed with breast cancer and women should get annual mammograms. Why are men at risk for breast cancer? Men have breast duct cells that can form breast cancer. Men breast duct cells are not as developed as women, therefore men are not at high risk for getting breast cancer. Men have lower hormone levels which decreases their risk of developing breast cancer. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts in the breast and spread to other areas of the body. Men are at higher risk for breast cancer as they get older. Normally, between the ages 60 to 70 years old, men are detected for breast cancer whereas women are detected earlier in life. Sometimes it is harder to feel a lump in men breast because men have smaller amounts of breast tissue than a woman which makes it difficult to catch the cancer

Breast cancer affects both women and men diagnosed early. If caught early, the survival rate for men is 100 percent within the 5 years of survival. For stage 1 and 2, the 5 year survival rate is 96 percent and 84 percent. When the breast cancer reaches stage 3, there is a 52 percent rate of survival and 24 percent in stage4. (2009, Breast Cancer Statistics). A family history of breast cancer, inhering harmful gene mutations, radiation exposure to the chest and abnormal enlargement of the breast are risk factors that affect men. The American Cancer Society estimated in 2013, about 2,240 new cases of breast cancer in men would be diagnosed and that breast cancer would cause appr...

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