Not just a women's disease
Riter says he didn't think too much about the lump he felt under his right nipple one night as he was scratching his chest. But a few weeks later, when he began to bleed, he headed to the doctor, who in turn, sent him to a surgeon. To Riter's surprise, he was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Among men with breast cancer-like symptoms, Riter is an exception. Often, men ignore some symptoms of the disease, because breast cancer doesn't come to mind as a potential ailment.
"One of the big problems for males is that men tend not to think about breast cancer. When they develop a sign or a symptom, unlike a woman, men tend not ... to go to the physician as quickly," says Dr. Lawrence Solin of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
That can result in a more advanced state of breast cancer when it's finally diagnosed, says Solin, which can affect a patient's survival rate. In 2005, the American Cancer Society estimates the survival rate for male breast cancer sufferers will be 73 percent, compared to 81 percent for women.
"The delay to diagnoses is substantially longer in men than in women," he says, noting that the successful public awareness efforts reminding women to examine themselves for lumps have been lost on many men.
Awareness aside, experts acknowledge that while it is unnecessary all men (like women) should have regular mammograms, they do believe men should use good judgment.
"The biggest message is not so much that all men should do self-exams, but more that if a man feels lump, he should act on it. A woman who feels a lump should definitely get it checked out," Winer says.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/22...breast.cancer/
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