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Male Breast Cancer
A man from Provo, Utah, U.S.A., wrote to American Health magazine and asked: ?Is it possible for a man to get breast cancer?? The answer was: ?Yes, but it?s extremely rare.? Of the more than 170,000 new breast-cancer patients expected in the United States during 1991, only some 900 are likely to be men. The risk factors for men listed by the magazine were: ?a family history of male breast cancer; Klinefelter?s syndrome, a genetic disease associated with gynecomastia (enlargement of the breast); and hyperestrogenism, the production of excess estrogen.? American Health went on to say that ?since male breast cancer is usually advanced before it?s detected, doctors generally recommend mastectomy.?
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