Unusual Breast Facts
Did you know...
...that men can get breast cancer? About 300 cases a year are diagnosed each year in the U.K., presenting with similar symptoms to women.
... that over a ten year period, average breast size has increased from 34B to 36C?
... it is quite common for women to have one breast bigger than the other. Strangely it is usually the left one!
...the risk of breast cancer increases with age.
... a small number of women have an extra breast, usually in the lower armpit.
... some people have an extra nipple, usually below the breast or above the belly button. This was bad news in the middle ages when women with this quirk of nature were burned as witches, the thinking being that the extra nipple was used to feed her cat!
...every mammogram is completely unique to that person, a bit like fingerprints. However the breast architecture on one side tends to be more or less a mirror image of the other side.