Genetics and male breast cancer

Women aren't the only ones who can develop breast cancer. Men are also at-risk. Find information related to men being diagnosed with breast cancer here.

Discover statistics to answer some of the most common questions and to present a general picture of what breast cancer in the U.S. looks like today.

Living Beyond Breast Cancer joins Bring Your Brave campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer risk in young women of color, and how to face it and lower it.

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Some people are more likely than others to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Previvor is a term that’s often used to describe people who have a high risk of developing breast cancer.

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According to the National Cancer Institute, 1 in 8 American women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Certain genes, small pieces of your DNA, can cause breast cancer to grow when they have a mutation, or error.

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Certain patterns in your family’s health history may suggest that you or your relatives carry a gene mutation linked to breast cancer.

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Although breast cancer is much less common in men than in women, there are still nearly 2,600 men diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year.

A breast cancer diagnosis doesn’t mean the end of a healthy sex life. If you are interested in having children, you may want to consider visiting a sperm bank before starting chemotherapy. 

Most men with breast cancer have surgery of some type. Reconstruction, or reconstructive surgery, is surgery to make the area where a breast was removed look more like it did before.

There is little research that is specifically about treating male breast cancer. Still, you can find comfort in knowing that male breast cancer seems to be well-managed by the therapies used for women with breast cancer.