Breast Cancer: A Case Study

This paper examines the risks factors associated with male breast cancer in comparison with female breast cancer. It will also observes the follow up treatment recommended for men versus women. Although male breast cancer is rare, just like for female breast cancer, the occurrence has increased in recent years. Since most men do not recognize there is a problem or they are too embarrassed to mention it to their physician, male breast cancer is often found at a much more advanced stage than that of female breast cancer. This coupled with the fact that there are no screening recommendations for male breast cancer, as there is for female breast cancer, it makes the diagnosis a bit more difficult to make when the cancer is in its infancy. “Man, I Feel like a Woman”-Examining Male versus Female Breast Cancer Breast cancer, the words most dreaded by women, are words that most men do not think they will ever have to hear as their own diagnosis. Although infrequent, the American Cancer Society reports that one in seven hundred seventy four men will be diagnosed with male breast cancer (MBC). For women, it is one in eight that will be diagnosed with breast cancer. The risk factors for MBC is somewhat the same as female breast cancer (FBC). A family history of breast cancer in both male and female increases the …show more content…
Until recently, when genetic makeup became more studied, it was often not even recorded in a patient’s history if there was a paternal family history of breast cancer. With much more research done it is now just as important, if not more important, to know this history to manage patients diagnosed with breast cancer. The fact is, far more women will be diagnosed with breast cancer but for the men that receive this news it is much more invasive requiring more aggressive treatment in hopes of curing the