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Breast cancer is an equal opportunity disease

Priscilla F. McAuliffe

Dr. Priscilla McAuliffe, a breast surgical oncologist at UPMC, said one out of 100 cases of breast cancer will occur in a male.

McAuliffe, who practices at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Passavant, said breast cancer can be divided into different categories.

Breast cancer that starts in the milk ducts of the breast gland make up 85% of breast cancer cases, and lobular breast cancer, which starts in the milk-producing parts of the breast glands, account for 15% of breast cancer cases. Both can spread into surrounding tissue, to lymph nodes and to other organs, such as the liver, lungs, brains and bones.

McAuliffe said men are very unlikely to be diagnosed with lobular breast cancer because they lack the milk-producing portion of the breast glands.

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