Breast & Prostate Cancer: Risk Factors & Men's Health

5 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (by Paul Savage MD) discusses links between breast cancer and prostate cancer, emphasizing that the same 19 modifiable risk factors apply to both and highlighting that men can develop breast cancer. The speakers state that historical estimates put male breast cancer at 1% of cases and that this has increased to 3%; one clinician notes a recent male breast cancer patient in practice.

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19 modifiable risk factors (speaker states all 19 apply to prostate cancer).

Speakers cite previous studies showing 1% of breast cancer cases were in men and say that now 3% are in males.

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The connection between breast cancer in women, but also prostate cancer, though I'm sure there's men watching, listening, too. So I kind of want to connect those and at least put your thoughts around that and how maybe some of this, what we're talking about, relates to men.
Almost everything I have said, the modifiable risk factors, all 19 of them, they actually are the same for prostate cancer. And also men can get breast cancer. The previous studies showed that 1% of breast cancer was in men. Now 3% of breast cancer is in males. In fact, personally, in my own practice, my second to last patient with breast cancer actually was a male. And so men can get breast cancer also.