Health and Men

Doctors Urge Men To Get Check For Breast Cancer

by Scott on December 14th, 2007

Yeah, thats what I thought too when I first saw this. Men? Breast cancer? It is true. Doctors are urging men with a history of breast cancer in their family. I’ve heard of it before in rare cases and I actually knew someone that had some funny looking pecks (kinda looked like womens breasts) that had a lump and had to get tested. I don’t know what ever came of that. Anyway. Here is an excerpt from an article on Man-breast cancer.

“Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men.

Male relatives of women with such genes often do not realize that they, too, may carry them, and face greater odds of developing male breast cancer, as well as prostate, pancreatic and skin cancer, new research suggests.

“Everyone thinks of breast and ovarian cancer and just assumes it’s all women. They don’t even realize these genes can be inherited from the father’s side of the family,” said Dr. Mary Daly of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

After seeing breast cancer in several male patients who did not know they were at risk, Daly conducted a small study, which was presented Friday at a conference in Texas. She now is trying to convince more fathers, sons and brothers of women with the genes to get tested.”

Click here to read the full article Study: Male Relatives Face Risk From Breast Cancer Genes; Doctors Urge More Men to Get Tested

Source: AP

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