Yes, Men Can Get Breast Cancer

Jennifer R. Povey
4 min readOct 14, 2021
Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

Yes, guys. You probably don’t think of yourself as having breasts, but your bodies are designed so that a bit of female hormone (just ask a trans woman. Or a cis man with the unfortunate condition of gynecomastia)…and poof. Breasts.

Which means cis men have a bit of breast tissue and that tissue can, in rare cases, become cancerous.

What Are the Risks?

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.