American
Cancer
Society
Breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than among women. For men, the lifetime risk of getting
breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000. The number of breast cancer cases in men relative to the population has been fairly
stable over the last 30 years. The prognosis (outlook) for men with breast cancer was once thought to be worse than
that for women, but recent studies have not found this to be true. In fact, men and women with the same stage of breast
cancer have a fairly similar outlook for survival. A breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts from cells of the breast.
A malignant tumor is a group of cancer cells that may grow into (invade) surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to
distant areas of the body. Breast cancer occurs mainly in women, but men can get it, too. Many people do not realize
that men have breast tissue and that they can develop breast cancer...
This year, about 2,190 new cases of invasive
breast cancer will be diagnosed among men
and about 410 men will die from breast cancer.
BREAST
CANCER
INMEN?