Men and Health: Part I

Men and breast cancer.

Even though men not like women, they do have a small amount of breast tissue. In fact the "breasts" of an adult man are similar to the breasts of a girl before matured and consist of a few ducts surrounded by breast and other tissue.

However, because it is still breast tissue, men can develop breast cancer. In fact, men get the same types of breast cancers like women, although cancers involving the milk producing and storing regions of the breast are very rare.

According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 2,300 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2009.Breast cancer in men is a very rare disease. This is possibly due to their smaller amount of breast tissue and the fact that men produce smaller amounts of hormones like estrogen that are known to affect breast cancers in women.

In fact, there are only about 1 in 100 breast cancers affect men and only about 10 men in a million will develop breast cancer.