Yes, it's true - men can get breast cancer

The woman on the phone identified herself as being with a national organization for breast cancer awareness that I didn’t recognize. She was volunteering to send me an envelope that I would then have the privilege of filling with money and returning.

“Can I tell all the lovely ladies suffering from breast cancer that you’ll help them?” she asked. I thought about it briefly then I replied, “Men get breast cancer too,” before politely hanging up on her.

Yes, according to the American Cancer Society an estimated 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed among women in the U.S. this year and only about 2,360 new cases in men. But nonetheless men get it and 430 of them are expected to die from it.

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