The focus is so high on female breast cancer, and rightly so – women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer than men it has been estimated, due to substantially more breast tissue – that no one really gives much thought or much study to the male version of this potentially deadly cancer. 

But the fact is, men do run a risk of developing this cancer that usually is contracted by women, but it is usually at later ages, when most cancers run a higher risk for most people, for men it usually occurs around the ages of 55 to 70 years old approximately.

It used to be that male breast cancer would be detected much later than female breast cancer, simply because it’s not at the forefront of a man’s mind to get checked for this type of cancer, and usually a lump or hardness of some sort would have to be discovered for him to get checked out, but now there are some more sophisticated techniques for detection in both men and women, and the seriousness of both the male and female version are about the same with the same prognosis, so the focus has been more open minded about possible male breast cancer cases. 

The signs to look for are a puckering around the male breast, and indented look of the nipple that wasn’t there before, nipple discharge, and irregularities of the nipple.  So you see, it seems that men really need to keep an eye on the nipples of their breasts for early detection, while this is more of a secondary check for most women. 

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