Men with breast cancer

Discover statistics to answer some of the most common questions and to present a general picture of what breast cancer in the U.S. looks like today.

Although breast cancer is much less common in men than in women, there are still nearly 2,600 men diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year.

About 10% of men diagnosed with breast cancer have a breast cancer-related genetic mutation, most commonly in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene.

There is little research that is specifically about treating male breast cancer. Still, you can find comfort in knowing that male breast cancer seems to be well-managed by the therapies used for women with breast cancer.

Most men with breast cancer have surgery of some type. Reconstruction, or reconstructive surgery, is surgery to make the area where a breast was removed look more like it did before.

A breast cancer diagnosis doesn’t mean the end of a healthy sex life. If you are interested in having children, you may want to consider visiting a sperm bank before starting chemotherapy.