After skin cancer breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. It is also the second leading cause of cancer in women says the American Cancer Society. But doctors also diagnose thousands of men every year with this disease. And the prognosis for male breast cancer is similar to that in women. In fact the American Cancer Society says that men have a 96 per cent chance of surviving 5 years or more after diagnosis when cancer affects only the breast tissue at diagnosis. It comes down to 83 per cent when it affects nearby areas as well as