Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.
Breast changes in men are common. Sometimes it’s fat. Sometimes it’s breast tissue growth. Rarely, it’s cancer.
A concern male patients bring up in my office — sometimes joking, sometimes with embarrassment — is “man boobs.” For some men, chest enlargement is simply fat. For others, it’s gynecomastia, the medical term for breast tissue growth. In many cases, it’s both fat and tissue growth at the same time.
Gynecomastia is more common than many people realize. Research suggests that asymptomatic gynecomastia — growth without pain or tenderness — is present in 30% to 50% of healthy men. That means nearly half of men may experience some level of breast tissue enlargement at some point in their lives, even if they never notice it.
In both men and women, the breast is situated on top of the chest muscles and consists of two main components: fat and glandular tissue.
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