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    Breast Cancer Rate in Men Rises

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    The rate of breast cancer in men has risen from 0.85 per 100,000 men in 1975 to 1.21 per 100,000 men in 2016, and is estimated to affect 2,670 men in the United States this year. Studies have found that men have lower survival rates than women after 3 and 5 years of diagnosis, meaning men are more likely to die of cancer. While men make up less than 1% of breast cancer cases compared to women, a study of over 1.8 million cancer patients found that 16,025 were men. The FDA has encouraged including men in breast cancer drug studies to expand treatment options for male patients.

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    The rate of breast cancer in men has risen from 0.85 per 100,000 men in 1975 to 1.21 per 100,000 men in 2016, and is estimated to affect 2,670 men in the United States this year. Studies have found that men have lower survival rates than women after 3 and 5 years of diagnosis, meaning men are more likely to die of cancer. While men make up less than 1% of breast cancer cases compared to women, a study of over 1.8 million cancer patients found that 16,025 were men. The FDA has encouraged including men in breast cancer drug studies to expand treatment options for male patients.

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    The rate of breast cancer in men has risen from 0.85 per 100,000 men in 1975 to 1.21 per 100,000 men in 2016, and is estimated to affect 2,670 men in the United States this year. Studies have found that men have lower survival rates than women after 3 and 5 years of diagnosis, meaning men are more likely to die of cancer. While men make up less than 1% of breast cancer cases compared to women, a study of over 1.8 million cancer patients found that 16,025 were men. The FDA has encouraged including men in breast cancer drug studies to expand treatment options for male patients.

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    Breast Cancer Rate in Men Rises

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    The rate of breast cancer in men has risen from 0.85 per 100,000 men in 1975 to 1.21 per 100,000 men in 2016, and is estimated to affect 2,670 men in the United States this year. Studies have found that men have lower survival rates than women after 3 and 5 years of diagnosis, meaning men are more likely to die of cancer. While men make up less than 1% of breast cancer cases compared to women, a study of over 1.8 million cancer patients found that 16,025 were men. The FDA has encouraged including men in breast cancer drug studies to expand treatment options for male patients.

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    Breast Cancer Rate in Men Rises

    By: Kasey Angeli D. Villaverde

    As breast cancer rate in men rises, US FDA encouraged drug companies saying men’s breast cancer
    should also be included in studies last August 2019.

    From 0.85 per 100,000 men United States in 1975 to 1.21 per 100,000 men in 2016, breast cancer rate
    in men has risen to an estimated 2,670 men in United States this year.

    The study in JAMA Oncology found out that women has higher survival rates than men after three and
    five year of diagnosis. This means that men are more likely to die due to cancer.

    Besides, men makes up less 1 percent in breast cancer cases, unlike in woman who makes the rest of the
    cases.

    With registered case of 1,816,733 U.S. diagnosed patients from January 2004 until December 2014,
    16,025 of it were identified to be men’s case.

    Somehow, men find it slightly unfair beacuse woman have more advantage to find symptoms of breast
    cancer earlier by doing regular breast exams.

    “The most striking thing is that there was a difference in treatment.” Laura Esserman, a breast
    oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco expressed.

    84.5 percent of the male breast cancer patients’ tumor grow in response to estrogen or progesterone
    yet, only 57.9 percent received therapy that stops the growth of cancer cells. The remaining percent
    belongs to the patients who were “hormone-receptor positive”.

    Fortunately, men could take follow-up treatment and after this, patients were adviced to take
    “Tamoxifen”, a pill that reduces risk of cancer recurrence. According to the experts, this pill has side
    effects like mood swings, nausea, hot flashes and loss of sex drive.
    Yet, hormone therapies in women might not work in men due to different molecular pathways says
    Xiaoxian Bill Li, a breast pathologist at Emory University in Atlanta.

    To expand the studies and treatment options that could help male breast cancer patients, US Food and
    Drug Administration encouraged drug companies and manufacturers to study men’s condition as well.
    The request has been approved by an agency but no male participants were included by the reason of
    the drug’s behavior between the sexes.

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