Posted on February 23, 2010.
If men are subjected to a breast cancer rate will annual mammogram? Yes, I think. Fortunately the men do not.
It is unlikely that men represent less than 1% of cases of breast cancer in the world.
Set up a systematic screening of men for breast cancer would increase the demand for screening and limiting the number of people who could be examined and detect the disease early, most curable stage.
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No, it would not increase the incidence. Firstly, men are generally not diagnosed on mammography. second screening for any type of cancer does not cause cancer, which would be the only way they could increase the incidence rate. They contribute to cancer diagnosis at an earlier stage, which is the name of the game insofar as survival is concerned. Most cancer patients are diagnosed at term unless they die of other causes before the diagnosis is made and even some of them are diagnosed at autopsy.