About one percent of
breast cancer develops in males. It is estimated that about 2,140 new cases are diagnosed annually in the US and about 300 in the UK, and the number of annual deaths is about 450 in the US. In a study from India, eight out of 1,200 (0.7%) male cancer diagnoses in a pathology review represented
breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in men has been increasing. The tumor can occur over a wide age range, but typically appears in men in their sixties and seventies.
