A South Florida couple face the most difficult challenge of their marriage after both being diagnosed with breast cancer. Read on to learn more.
Breast cancer is not a disease that affects just women. In men, there is a small amount of breast tissue containing several ducts that reside just under the nipple in boys and men. It's actually the same tissue that young girls have before they hit puberty and the hormones stimulate these ducts to grow into fully developed breasts.
So men don't go through the pubertal stage of breast development that girls do. However, they still retain small amounts of breast tissue and ducts below their nipple. This is the tissue that can become cancerous. That's why men are still able to get breast cancer. However, breast cancer is less common in men not only because there is less tissue there to become cancerous, but also because there are lower levels of the female hormones that can exacerbate breast cancer development.
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