MENS’ BREAST CANCER – UNHEARD BUT TRUE

The first impression in the minds of people about breast cancer is that it is typical of woman only, but men also may become victims.
The case is evident, of total breast caner victims hardly 1% have men as their victims. And since it is so rare there is hardly any a research material or awareness in the minds of people, in fact if a man is diagnosed with breast cancer he shall be dumbfounded.
There exists hardly any satisfactory reason that doctors may give for the cause of cancer, almost in 60 %, the cause is termed as unknown.
But perhaps the family history can make one on alert. If you have alarming number of relatives as victims, either men or women, you should be on alert.
Again since women are routinely checked up by mammography, the men do not undergo such precautions, this is the reason that breast caner in men is diagnosed at a very late stage.
Men with unusually large breasts, due to obesity or steroid abused, should be more on alert to see any changes that occur in the nipples.
The treatment for breast cancer for men and women is however the same, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.