Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 @ 1:54 pm |
Men
How can they get breast cancer?Although it is painfully obvious that a man doesn’t have breasts, he does have a small amount of breast tissue. In fact the “breasts” of an adult man are similar to the breasts of a girl before puberty. These “breasts†consist of a few ducts surrounded by breast and other tissue. In girls, female hormones make these tissue grow and develop, but in men, who do not secrete the same amounts of these hormones, this tissue does not develop.The point is, it is still breast tissue, and as such men can develop breast cancer. In fact, men and women have the same types of breast cancer .
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