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Posted by Prudence on November 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Okay, they’re squishy, manly boobs…but they can have breast cancer, too.

Breast cancer may be rarely diagnosed in men because most of us, even the physicians, do not really think of it as a diagnosis, when male patients come in with a suspicious lump on their chest. Or most likely, men with suspicious lumps on their chest wouldn’t really bother consulting a physician for it and just think that the lump only resulted from an accident during a sport or at work, as what happened to Brian Place.

But men have to be aware that they, too, can have this disease.

As it is true for females, males with a mother or a sister (or even another brother) who were diagnosed with breast cancer has a lifetime risk of developing the disease. Males who are carriers of mutated gene BRCA2 have a lifetime risk of 6% of developing the cancer. BRCA2 mutations are also associated with cancers in the prostate, pancreatic, and urinary bladder. They could also develop nonHodgkin’s lymphoma and basal cell carcinoma.

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