Breast Cancer

Male Breast Cancer Patients Often Diagnosed at Older Ages

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, September 21st, 1998

Male breast cancer cases are not common. The United States 1997 estimates suggested that 1,400 men, compared to 180,200 women, would be diagnosed with breast cancer during that year.

Although accumulating information indicates that the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of breast cancer is fundamentally similar in both genders, there are comparatively fewer data available about treatment results regarding male breast cancer cases. What is apparent is that males consistently have poorer breast cancer survival rates compared with females.

A study presented in the August 1, 1998, issue of the journal Cancer revealed why this may be so: male breast...

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