Man, please note your breasts!

1% of breast cancer in men

Normal male breast development degree is very low, so often forgotten, men are almost never would have thought that their breasts are a problem.

In fact, the breast as a body organ located, men should also pay attention to. For them, the breasts may also be a "accidents".

In fact, scientists have the male breast cancer into the field of medical research.

United States Cancer Society Web site for the latest data show that the number of male breast cancer, in all male cancer 0.22%. Because current research on male breast cancer than women breast cancer research have full, experts believe that this should not be a small number, and may have more patients are lacking, not in the statistics. Male patients accounted for 1% of patients with breast cancer.

This reporter has learned that at present the domestic clinical men accounted for 1% of patients with breast cancer, mostly in middle-aged and elderly people.

Have a breast may have breast cancer

Theoretically, the incidence of breast cancer is due to appear in breast cell malignant tumor, men also have breast tissue, so also may lead to breast cancer.

It was only because of physiological differences in the structure, leading to the hormone level is different, so the women the chance of breast cancer would be greater than that of men.

Men are more dangerous than women

For women, breast cancer is not nothing new, but for men, as usual very little attention, therefore becomes even more dangerous.

It is understood that, because there is no male breast lobules and alveoli of the breasts, so much smaller than females, because male breast tissue is weak, in case of breast cancer, it is easy to spread around without the need for too long can spread to breast skin and muscle tissue, which is why male breast cancer patients often when you first visit with phase has been one of the reasons for the relatively late.

For female patients

with early breast cancer, although the lesions are small, hard to find, but if you use breast x-ray photos check, you will soon find that in female patients often physical examination is very effective and widespread, but men rarely take this very common way of checking, this is the male breast tumors often overlooked.

What are the risk symptoms?

Because of the small male breasts, so when male breasts appear small foreign objects, is easily noticeable, so relative to women, as long as usual, male breast lesions found early detection of problems more easily.

When male breasts when the following conditions are true, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible for further examination.

1. agglomeration and swelling.

The main symptom of male breast cancer is breast masses come around the areola, hard texture, the border is not clear, smooth surface often, activity level.

2. Breast skin sags, nipple, occasionally accompanied by blood spill the nipple.

Pain sometimes not obvious, but if you find nipples recoil, and involving the skin should be vigilant.

3, Lymphadenopathy.

Breast cancer is characterized by the largest transfer easily, so if you find axillary lymph node enlargement is also a long time to be particularly careful.

(Practice editing: high Yuhua)