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