Not Only Female Can get Breast Cancer

Not Only Female Can Get Breast Cancer

What is called breast cancer? This is kind of malignant tumor which grows on breast. Malignant tumor itself is a set of cancer cells that get bigger and grow in skin or broaden to areas of body.

It’s a fact that not only women who can get breast cancer, men also have to be alerted of kind of this.

The breast is made up of lobules (used to produce milk in women), ducts (litte cylinder where milk goes from the lobules to the nipple), and stroma (tissue around the lobules and ducts, lymphatic vessels, and blood vessels).

Young people only have little number of breast tissue. But when puberty comes, the ovarioum on girl make female hormones causing breast duct bigger.  In boys, the hormone made by testicle prevent the breast being too much big as in girls.

The number of breast cancer in man is only one percent. Around 2.140 cases are diagnosed in America every year. It can happened in every age, but mostly happened on age sixties or seventies.

Breast cancer happened because radiation exposure, genetic factor, also exposure to female hormones which may occur by medication or obesity. Some bad live style such as drinking and smoking can also worsen the case.