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When men suffer from breast cancer

Time:2009-11-04 19:20  Author:admin Hits:
Many men think that breast cancer is women's disease, it is wrong way of thinking is not the case, men would similarly risk of breast cancer in the United States each year 1,400 men were diagnosed with breast cancer each year about 300 middle-aged men death due to breast cancer, so breast cancer is also very popular man yo!

At present the view that breast cancer in men and women who are the same causes of breast cancer, so women with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment methods also apply to males. Male breast cancer incidence is relatively low, but once the extent of malignant disease in general than females, and because the impact of people's traditional ideas, making male breast cancer can easily be ignored, and almost no men, women, the same as regular checks and that checks its own breast, often to diagnose when they are already to late, so the survival rate of male breast cancer patients with less than women. Pairs of men, it is difficult to accept he was suffering from breast cancer, many men learned that he was suffering from post-breast cancer should not only bear the pain caused by the disease itself, but also put up their own mind on the traditional concept of torture.

Therefore, if men find that their breasts are different from the usual changes in words, such as increased breast lumps, nipple with liquid flow and other characteristics of breast cancer should be attention in a timely manner a doctor to check, do not seek medical treatment for concealing anything disease.

The clinical manifestations of male breast cancer What are the characteristics?

Is usually found in patients with their first - a breast cancer symptom is a painless mass, generally located beneath the areola, just the male breast tissue concentration of the tumor grow faster. When patients seek treatment, the tumor is not the only symptom of breast cancer. Nipple discharge more likely to have breast cancer in men. In addition, nipple retraction, skin changes, also more common than breast cancer in women with breast cancer characteristics. We found that men with newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, about half of the axillary lymph nodes can reach.

In general, male breast cancer, mostly unilateral, often located in the left breast, while bilateral and into the breast can also occur. At the age of male patients than female patients are often diagnosed at the age of large, and in a clear diagnosis is often late than female patients.

Attacks on male breast cancer

In some medical research is not very developed countries, many patients until death do not know what is suffering from the disease. Male breast cancer is more likely the case. I am afraid that very few men would be worrying about their risk of breast cancer - it is a woman thing, nothing to do with me.

This misconception caused by lack of awareness of heart, it is often caused by men, to discover breast cancer in late stage cancer, the main reason. Now, scientists have solemnly such seemingly unlikely the disease into the forefront of medical research field.

In fact, men will not only suffer from breast cancer, and that its incidence may be even higher than we can imagine much more - according to the American Cancer Society website data, the current incidence of breast cancer found in men, the number of all male cancer which is the proportion of 0.22%. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2004 across the United States probably will have 1450 men are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer (the more common form of breast cancer), patients with about 1 / 3 will be died.

Gene mutations are different for men and women, male breast cancer more deadly

Men also get breast cancer, and with women, compared to the rapid development of the disease is more ferocious, higher death rate. Recently, the reporter was informed that in the interview, as environmental pollution, obesity increased, the overall incidence of breast cancer was significantly higher, in which the incidence of male breast cancer occurs more and more worthy of vigilance. The experts said, due to mutations in different genes of male breast cancer, along with men usually shy or not taken seriously because it refuses to face the illness and other reasons, breast cancer is often easier to make a man a fatal.

Chinese Medicine Hospital, Jiangsu Province, Department of Pathology of the Jen-sheng, director of long-term engaged in hereditary breast cancer research, he said that only his contact with male breast cancer patients as many as nearly 20 cases. The patient had a left breast is grown on a less than 2 cm mass, biopsy analysis, actually have breast cancer. While the other patients due to a relatively late, receiving breast cancer treatment, cancer has the same as the armor covered the entire chest wall, surgical treatment of a doctor could not only maintain the puncture. He concluded that the incidence of male breast cancer less, but it clearly demonstrated the following characteristics, namely: First, older, often sixty or seventy years old; second disease progress rapidly, often not until the formation of a great mass metastasis has already occurred; third of breast cancer diet; four breast cancer chemotherapy to be ineffective, a higher mortality rate.

What factors lead to male breast cancer?

Giordano, who according to the study, there are about 20% of male breast cancer patients, their family, their loved ones are suffering from similar diseases. Thus, genetic factors are important reasons for male breast cancer. But more often a predisposing factor, or from the day after tomorrow. Whether congenital or acquired factors, factors that lead to the male hormone deficiency, excessive secretion of estrogen men are more susceptible to breast cancer.

Therefore, the female hormone therapy has become the cause of male breast cancer. In the treatment of diseases such as prostate and other male patients taking some of the pharmaceutical intermediate contains a certain amount of female hormones. This treatment may increase the chance of falling ill with breast cancer. However, relative to the healing efficacy of the prostate, this impact is negligible. The degeneration of man, take large doses of female hormones, the incidence of breast cancer greatly increased.

Liver problems may also lead to the occurrence of male breast cancer. Because of the manufacturing in the liver carried in the blood hormone binding protein, resulting in sex hormone metabolism occupies a pivotal position. These binding proteins can affect the activity of hormones. Severe liver bad men, such as cirrhosis of the men, their body of the male endocrine hormones low, high estrogen, as well as breast cancer diet. So they are relatively easy to suffer from gynecomastia, or breast cancer.