CAN A MEN GET BREAST CANCER?

What is Breast Cancer:

Breast cancer develops when the normal cells of the breast grow out of control.
These abnormally growing cells form tumors and can be detected with the help of X-Ray or can be felt as a lump the tumor can both be metastasized or malignant.

Breast Cancer in Men: 

Breast cancer mainly occurs in women but this can also be in men too.  A lot of people do not know that men also have breast tissue and there are also chances of developing breast cancer.
Before puberty, both boys and girls have a small amount of breast tissue but at hitting, puberty stage girls ovary produces female hormones that cause the growth of breast duct and lobules. However, in boys, there is a low level of female hormones and thus breast tissues only have had duct but only a few lobules that are not functional.
Breast cancer can begin from numerous parts of the breast. Most of the breast cancer begins in the nipple known as ductal cancer and sometimes in breast milk glands called globular cancers.
Breast cancer is very rare in men but the survival rate in the early stage of breast cancer is lesser in males as compared to females. Men diagnosed with breast cancer at an early stage live for about 6 years while in a female it is extended up to 15 years.

Breast Cancer Treatment in Male: 

There are several treatment methods of breast cancer in men. Some of the methods are common in both males and females. However, the most successful treatment is medication.
The best medication for breast cancer is Ribociclib 200mg.

It belongs to kinase inhibitor class drug that works by for the treatment of postmenopausal women which hormone receptor-positive. It is very effective in the case of breast cancer in the male.

Kryxana 200 mg is an inhibitor of cyclin D1/CDK4 and CDK6 and is used for the treatment of breast cancer in men and women. There are certain proteins in the body that grow and divide continuously. Patients having ER-positive and HER2-negative the protein of growth become overactive and thus continued division occurs by blocking this specific protein and stopping further division and growth. When this drug is combined with other hormonal therapy drugs the estrogen production gets blocked and cancerous cells lead to death.

Ribociclib 200mg is available in tablet form. It is taken orally with or without food in combination with letrozole. The highly recommended dose is 3 tablets of 200 mg taken for 21 days followed by 7 days off treatment.

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