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Breast health is important to both women and men alike. Breast cancer is usually manageable and treatable with early detection. For this reason, it’s important to get to know your breasts and check them regularly, guys included.

Breast cancer death rates are higher than any other cancer other than lung cancer for U.S. women. In fact, more than 1 in 4 cancers in women, or about 28 percent, are breast cancer. In 2007, the most recent year of data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 202,964 women in the U.S. were diagnosed with breast cancer, and 40,598 women died from breast cancer. On average, this is approximately a 2 percent decrease from the years 1999 to 2006, according to the CDC. It is estimated that about 1 in 8 women, or 12 percent, will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. In 2010, 1,970 new cases of breast cancer diagnoses in men were expected. In 2010, there were more than 2.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. The most significant risk factor for breast cancer is growing older and about 70 to 80 percent of cases occur in women with no family history of breast cancer. For your health and to protect your loved ones, please read the following articles related to breast health.