This is actually a serious question, I was watching a program and a guy was talking about years of going through breast cancer.
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Same tissue in men. Just not as much fat. In fact, some conditions can cause men to lactate (eject milk). The fat under the skin is what causes the protrusion in females, in men it is usually just the underlying muscle. Unless they're fat(moobs!)...
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Men have breast tissue just like women, and can develop breast cancer.
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Men have breast tissue, just as women do. In case you haven't noticed, they even have nipples. As it only takes a single cell of breast tissue to start breast cancer, men can also develop this disease. It is a lot less common, normally not occurring until men are over 50. I have met men who have been through this at my breast cancer support group and my maternal grandfather died of breast cancer complications.
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My father had Breast Cancer and it was a stage 3. He went through Surgery, Chemo AND Radiation, and has survived the past 13 years. He was VERY Lucky.
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Men have breast tissue, and so can develop breast cancer. It's exactly the same cancer women get, and treated the same way. It's rare though - fewer than 1% of all those diagnosed with breast cancer are male. Most men who develop it are over 60; I've met a few through breast cancer support networks who were in their 50s or late 40s, but that's rare. The youngest man ever to be diagnosed with it, by several years, was 24
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