That’s right. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers are not recommending mammograms to men even if they are showing breast symptoms including enlarged or painful breast tissue: a condition called gynecomastia (male breast).
According to Stephanie Hines, M.D., of Mayo’s Multidisciplinary Breast Clinic and Breast Cancer Program in Jacksonville, Florida:
“Mammography is being performed with increasing frequency in men with breast symptoms, but we found that breast cancer in men can be felt as a firm, discrete mass on a physical exam, or seen as changes in the skin or nipple.
Male breast cancer is exceedingly rare — fewer than 2,000 men in the …read more

Though less common than in women, male breast cancer is currently deadlier than testicular and prostate cancers combined.
Now we should remember that breast cancer is not just a woman’s disease.
As an educational campaign, the leading online men’s health authority, Men’s Health Network, is daring men to be aware of their risk for breast cancer.
In recognition of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Men’s Health Network has recently launched Dare to Be Aware: Men and Breast Cancer in the hope to help break through the often fatal barriers that can prevent men from getting early diagnosis and treatment.
Most men don’t consider breast …read more