Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion
Professor Arnold Hill:
Again, a man would present with a lump. This is something we see frequently. The most common cause of a lump in a male is a term called gynecomastia, which is essentially breast tissue in a male. It commonly occurs with specific medications that are taken. In fact, in the young population, using cannabis is probably the commonest cause in a young teenager or 20-year-old. We see this frequently. They do not seem to know that; it is not written for them.
In males, however, their presentation is typically with a lump and the same diagnostic process goes on of doing a mammogram and an appropriate biopsy. It is a very small amount of our workload, however, given the percentage of one male breast cancer for every 200 females.
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