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Although male breast cancer cases are rare compared to women, men do get breast cancer.
As a matter of fact, the incidence rate of male breast cancer cases has increased every
year since 1975. So women out there, if you're listening, please do me a favor and examine
your man's *** on a routine basis, once a month and check for the same symptoms that
you would check for yourself. Although the symptoms are the same, men rarely associate
breast cancer symptoms because they don't think that they can get the disease. Unfortunately
because of this, male breast cancer diagnoses tend to be in later stages, making treatment
more difficult and mortality rates higher. When performing a self exam on your partner,
in a supine position, horizontal position, ask your partner to raise his right hand over
his head, exposing and lifting his right breast area. The area that you want to pay particular
attention to extends from the auxiliary area down to the bottom of the breast tissue, over
to the sternum, and again up to the collar bone. When performing the self examination,
use the pads of your first two or three fingers, and you want to palpate the skin or the breast
tissue, first in the auxiliary area and look again for any abnormalities such as lumps
that may be hard or soft, with even or uneven edges. Also, pay particular attention to areas
where your partner may say he is sore or tender. Once you've completed examining the auxiliary
area, you want to focus on the breast area using a grid fashion, in the same palpating
technique, slowly walk your fingers firmly across the breast tissue. A typical examination
for a man who's breast tissue is smaller than a woman's, may take anywhere between five
to seven minutes. Again, when you're doing the examination, you're not just looking for
lumps but you're looking for changes in breast tissue that could include skin puckering,
or inversion of the ***, or *** discharge. Again, although men get breast cancer at a
lesser rate than women, it is important to know that male breast cancer cases are on
the rise, and it is your responsibility to inform your husband, or your spouse or partner,
that he is still susceptible to breast cancer, and he should perform a monthly breast exam
as well.