Surgery

Examining rates of gender-affirming surgery in the US

For adults and minors, most breast reductions performed on cisgender males and transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people are performed on cisgender males, according to a research letter published online June 27 in JAMA ...

Oncology & Cancer

Tool predicts nerve damage from breast cancer treatment

Many women treated for breast cancer using taxanes, a type of cytostatic drug, often experience side effects in the nervous system. Researchers at Linköping University have developed a tool that can predict the risk level ...

Breast

The breast is the upper ventral region of the torso of a primate, in left and right sides, which in a female contains the mammary gland that secretes milk used to feed infants.

Both men and women develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. However, at puberty, female sex hormones, mainly estrogen, promote breast development which does not occur in men due to the higher level of testosterone. As a result, women's breasts become far more prominent than those of men.

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