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The most recent American Cancer Society estimates for male
breast cancer in the United States are for 2009:
- About 1,910 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be
diagnosed among men
- About 440 men will die from breast cancer
Breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than
among women. For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is
about 1 in 1,000. The number of breast cancer cases in men relative to
the population has been fairly stable over the last 30 years.
The prognosis (outlook) for men with breast cancer was once
thought to be worse than that for women, but recent studies have not
found this to be true. In fact, men and women with the same stage of
breast cancer have a fairly similar outlook for survival.
Last Medical Review: 01/14/2010
Last Revised: 01/14/2010
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