Breast Cancer: A Case Study

*Since male breast cancer has different stages that a man can be diagnosed with that also means that there are different treatments for each diagnosis. The first step that a man would take is a biopsy, this usually a common procedure that a doctor will do to get the information they need to make a diagnosis. Along with the biopsy there are other surgeries that may be necessary.Chemotherapy is another treatment that is common for a man to do with breast cancer, but it may not be necessary for the lower stages. Then there is radiation and hormone therapy that could also be recommended after the chemotherapy. With each stage it may require more, but the biopsy is the first step to take. A biopsy is the only way that a doctor can be positive that
This surgery takes out the whole growth and some of the surrounding tissue and this is called an excisional biopsy, and if their growth is too large and they cannot remove all of it they will remove part of the lump and this is called incisional biopsy (American Cancer Society, 2016). Another biopsy that can be done is a lymph node biopsy and this is when the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes that are under the arm or around the clavicle. This biopsy can be done with just a needle, but there are some that can require surgery. The lymph node biopsy that requires is called lymph node dissection and sentinel lymph node biopsy. This is the surgery that they many do with men because with men they catch it when they are in a later stage and this gives the cancer the chance to spread to the lymph nodes. There are two types of surgeries that they can use when they want to test if some of the lymph nodes are
At these lower stages the most that they usually have to do is to just remove the cancerous tumor. With this stage removing the tumor is usually all it will take because the cancer has not spread and you take all the cancer out when the tumor is removed. The procedure that they usually use is either a mastectomy or removal of some of the lymph nodes (malecare, n.d.). Since the cancer is caught early chemotherapy may not always be necessary, but for some patients it may be recommended. With stage 2 the cancer has now spread into some of the lymph nodes, making the cancer a little stronger than it was in the lower stages. With the cancer still not to far along the doctors may start with chemotherapy and try and shrink the cancer or stop it from spreading any farther. Once the cancer is under control all that may be required after is either an axillary lymph node dissection or a sentinel lymph node biopsy (American Cancer Society, 2016). Stage 2 male breast cancer is still caught fairly early that the treatments are not going to be as dreadful as it is for the later