Men also suffer from breast cancer!

41-year-old resident of Great Britain, Mark ate had no idea that men can develop breast cancer as well as women. As long as he does not put this diagnosis and did not offer to do a mastectomy.

When Mark for the first time noticed specks of blood on his sheet, then I did not give it much importance. Even when a colleague pointed out to Mark, that of the red stains on his shirt, the man really was not worried. Amateur actively spend time playing badminton, Mark just assumed that the T-shirt rubbed dry skin in the game.

A few months later he visited a doctor who agreed that it could be a skin condition, discharged patients cream. In fact, Mark was the victim breast cancer   - The most common tumor disease among women. However, the division of cancer by gender probation. After all, if the fairer sex is not even theoretically can develop "male" prostate cancer, the stronger sex is not so rarely confronted with breast tumors.

"When I found out about the diagnosis, then shame outweighed the sense of fear, - says Mark. - I did not know that a man can be" female "cancer. I was ashamed to someone talk about it, because all the bulge his eyes when they hear this diagnosis. Even on the job, I said that I had a tumor in the chest, without specifying where. "

Each year, the diagnosis breast cancer   put three hundred people in the UK male. In contrast to the "female" version of this cancer in men rarely find. A few months Mark unsuccessfully used the cream, until he started bleeding from the nipple. If he had bothered to score all the symptoms into Google, you may be alerted sooner.

The doctor checked the brand with the help of ultrasound and found nothing suspicious. Just to err, he did the patient biopsy of the nipple, which was positive. Fortunately Mark cancer (ductal carcinoma in situ) was at an early stage. The tumor has not yet begun to spread throughout the body, and in this case, the chances of complete recovery are high. He went through mastectomy (he removed the nipple and part of the breast tissue beneath), as well as chemotherapy. Currently eaten completely healthy.

ATTENTION!   Early signs breast cancer   men:

- The appearance of the disease seals under the nipple;

- Change the appearance of the nipple;

- As if the nipple is pushed in the chest;

- Nipple discharge (including the blood);

- Pitting - the appearance of sores on the skin of the breast;

- Lumps in the armpit.

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