Hello friends, how are you
all? I really hope you all to be fine and doing great. I am doing this post of
mine very
lately as for thank God the exams are over.
So, now let us give a look at
today’s post. Do remember friends, my last post about the harmful effects of
underarm anti – per spirant and
deodorants which are thought to cause breast cancer in women. So there I go on
with my today’s post which is a continuation of my last post about breast
cancer in men as I promised you.
Let me at first give a
précised form of what is breast and what
is breast cancer in women and men.
A breast is either of the two
soft, protruding organs on the upper front of a woman’s body in left and right
sides containing the mammary glands, that secrete milk after pregnancy and are
used to feed the baby milk.
Both men and women develop
breasts from the same embryological tissues. However, at puberty, female sex
hormones, mainly estrogen, promote breast development, which does not occur in
men, due to the higher amount of testosterone and as a result women’s breasts
become far more prominent than those of men.
Breast cancer is a malignant
tumor that starts in the cells of the breasts. A malignant tumor is a group of
cancer cells that can grow into surrounding tissues or spread to distant areas
of the body. Breast cancer occurs mainly in women, but, did you know, despite
men not having breasts like women, they could also develop breast cancer? Well,
most of the time breast cancer in men may be more serious than that in women only
because many people do not realize that men also have breast tissue though very
little and so breast cancer in them do
not get diagnosed in the early stages often even after symptoms appear and when
severe symptoms appear in the higher stages, the cancer is than diagnosed.
Let us also look at the
normal structure of the breast for a clear understanding of breast cancer and
how this could also develop in men.
The female breast is made up
mainly of lobules ( milk producing glands ), ducts ( tiny tubes that carry the
milk from lobules to the nipple ) and stroma ( fatty and connective tissues
surrounding the ducts and lobules, blood vessels and lymphatic vessels ). Male breasts lack glandular tissue and keep a
flatter and more muscular appearance, whereas, most of the female breast is
made up of glandular tissue and the rest is fat . Also male nipples are
underdeveloped, although they contain the same structures as female nipples,
the do not receive up to level dose of estrogen hormone to get developed fully
and so they remain in the immature state. Female nipples receive a surge of
estrogen at puberty which stimulates them to develop,enlarge and the milk
ducts develop to help the corresponding
development of breast tissue.Most breast cancer begins in the cells that line
the ducts and some begin in the cells that line the lobules and so the
increased chances and greater prominences of
breast cancer in females than in males
Breast cancer spreads by way
of the lymphatic system and it has some important parts that play role in
breast cancer spread.
Lymph nodes which are small
bean – shaped collections of immune – system cells and are very important in
fighting infections, connect by lymphatic vessels which carry lymph fluid away
from the breasts and carry waste products and tissue fluid.
Most lymphatic vessels in the
breasts connect to lymph nodes under the arms and some connect to nodes inside
the chest, and breast cancer cells can enter the lymphatic vessels and start to
grow in the lymph nodes. Once the cancer cells are in the lymph nodes, there is
greater risk that these cells will get into blood and cancer will then spread
to other organs.
Breast cancer is 100 times
less common in men than in women and for men, the life time risk of men for
getting this cancer is 1 in 1000. The chances of mortality from breast cancer
are found to be the same in both men and women.
How Serious Breast Cancer Is In Men
Because men have very little
breast tissue, it is easy for the male and his physician to detect any tumorous
masses in the area, but this very little breast tissue in male breast can also
give rise to a threat as there is little breast tissue, cancer will not have to
grow far to reach the nipples, the skin covering the breast or muscles
underneath the breasts. So, even though, men get breast cancer less often than
women do, when they are first diagnosed they have often been found to have
spread to other organs. So, this is a serious concern I think and men should be
conscious about any symptoms associated with breast cancer in them so as not
get diagnosed with it in the metastasizing stage and consult their doctors soon
about this without any shyness.
Further more, because of the
chaos of female most often get breast cancer, they often remain anticipated
about any warning signs of this cancer, on the other hand men ignore any
warning signs such as any breast lumps as they tend to think that the lumps
might have been caused due to an infection and also, sometimes they get
embarrassed on finding any lumps in their breasts, and fear that they might be
questioned about their masculinity. Altogether, diagnosis and treatment of
breast cancer in males get delayed and the cancer gets enough time to spread to
a threatening level.
I think, after reading this
post, any male viewers of mine will be alert of this thing and also make their
friends and family alert about this thing. As friends, this is really not a
thing of embarrassment rather is the time to get conscious about this new
health problem.
Men need to know that breast
cancer is no only limited to women and they could also get diagnosed with it.
Some of the symptoms of breast cancer in men include :
-
A lump or
swelling, which is usually painless but not always
-
Skin dimpling or
puckering
-
Nipple turning
inward
-
Redness of the
nipple and the breast skin
-
Nipple discharge
-
Nipple bleeding
So, similar to women, men
also might be at risk of getting exposed to the harmful effects of the underarm
anti – per spirants and deodorants which is though to cause breast cancer.
Those men are at a higher
risk of breast cancer with a strong family history of breast cancer even among
the female members of the family and it might be useful if they under go
advanced screening examination to detect
breast cancer in them.
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