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Gender bender

Breast cancer is not restricted to the female sex. It can happen to men also. What’s more, men have a significantly higher death rate than women, because the diagnosis is often made too late.
Men may this regard a lump, which is usually attach to the under site of the nipple, nipple inversion, or nipple discharge. Males at risk are those whose mothers, aunts, sisters had breast cancer, are taking estrogen as a treatment for prostrate cancer, have a low sex drive and a lower testosterone level. It is said that single and childless men are more susceptible.

According to The American Cancer Society, treatment of cancer is the same for both men and women patients. There are several types of cancer which can affect a men including most common invasive ductal carcinoma, Paget’s disease of breast, inflammatory breast cancer and a precancerous DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). There are approximately 300 breast-cancer cases in men diagnosed per year in UK.

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