Breast Cancer Advice Center

1) Is it possible for male to have breast cancer? Please explain in detail.?

2) Between a group of women with family history of breast cancer and a group of women who has breast implant, which one has higher risk of breast cancer. Please give support to your answer. 3) What causes prostrate cancer and why only older males have higher chance to have it? Please explain. 4) Why treatment for cancer requires patients to shave their heads? Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to read your answers.

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1. 1. Yes, it occurs in men, more so in the tissue between the breast and armpit.
   2. I would say family history, but I have never seen a study on that.
   3. Women don't have prostates. The prostate, found only in men, is a walnut-sized gland located in front of the rectum, at the outlet of the bladder (underneath the bladder). It contains gland cells that produce some of the seminal fluid, which protects and nourishes sperm cells in semen. The prostate surrounds the first part of the urethra, the tube that carries urine and semen through the penis.
   4. They don't. Chemo causes hair loss and they may/may not choose to shave the rest.
2. Yes, I had an uncle whom had breast cancer in 1996 and they did surgery to remove it
3. Shave their head? you mean their hair falls out due to the chemotherapy.
4. Yes. I once read that it is possible for men to have breast cancer. It's more uncommon than for women but it's still there.
5. ok..
   1. yes it is,men do not have breasts that show physically,but yes it is possible for them to get breast cancer.They have breasts they just are not physically visible on the outside.
   2.The group of woman who have a family history of breast cancer would have the higher risk.Cancer is often inherited.So say,if your father had cancer,you would likely want to be checked often for cancer,especially for the type that they had since you share the same genes.
   3.I have no idea.
   4.The treatment of cancer doesnt require you to shave your head.SOme may want to shave it because some treatments cause you to lose some of your hair if not all of it.Another reason for them shave their head would be them to have cancer in their head,or brain,or have a cancerous tumor etc...it doesnt require it,but sometimes one shaving their head due to treatment is a choice,sometimes its a must.
   Sorry i couldnt help with the 3rd,but theres my answers,hope i helped!
6. ermm well,seeing as i amonly 13 i dont know ALL the answers to this question BUT
   
   i do no that men CAN get breast cancer, it is less common for a man to get it rather than a women but it is possible
   125 living men ranging in age from 44 to 85 have been diagnosed with it.
   
   i no that isn't much detail but it is all i no sorry.
   
   and also I THINK not for deffinant bu i think that peoples heads are shaven when they have cancer is becuse when they have chemotherapy their hair falls out. So it is probably easier to shave it all of first, rather than have big clumps come out in different patches
   
   you can search ask jeeves on golles then man breast cancer, and a lot of information comes up
7. 1 men can and do get breast cancer because while they do not have develops breasts they still have tissue. men seldom check that tissue for lumps.
   2 women with family history are at a high risk, when combined with other factors the risk increases.
   3 I do not know enough about the causes prostate cancer to answer this, but you can find the info through the American cancer society and web MD.
   4 Most cancer treatments don't require the head to be shaved, some cancer treatment causes the hair to fall out due to the types of chemicals used to prevent fast cell growth. Many patients shave the head as the hair begins to fall out because it is easier than having hair clumps on everything, it is faster and it gives you some element of control.
8. Men's chest area and nipples can be referred to as the breast so yes they can have breast cancer any part of the human body can have cancer invade its tissues I dont know which group has a higher risk but familial is a strong risk not sure about prostate but I know that prostates enlarge with age and create urinating difficulting which is a chronic condition and the body is more likely to develop cancer in places of chronic irritation or inflammatory process and the drugs that are given to cancer patients make their hairfall out