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We tend to think of breast cancer as only a woman’s disease. While it is true breast cancer affects mostly women, male breast cancer makes up less than one percent of all breast cancer cases.

The following types of breast cancer are found in men:

• Invasive ductal carcinoma. Cancer that has spread beyond the cells lining the ducts in the breast. Most men with breast cancer have this type of cancer.
• Ductal carcinoma in situ. Abnormal cells that are found in the lining of a duct.
• Inflammatory breast cancer. A type of cancer in which the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm.
• Paget disease of the nipple. A tumor that has grown from ducts beneath the nipple onto the surface of the nipple.

Treatment for male breast cancer is much like treatment for breast cancer in women. Surgery for breast cancer may or may not be followed by chemotherapy, hormone therapy and/or radiation therapy for male breast cancer.