Besides the fact that the chances of women getting breast cancer is approximately 200 times greater than men (250,000 women vs. 1,500 men, average numbers contracting the disease per year), why isn't there more alarm in the man's side of this equation? I am a male those regular physician dismissed the tumor in my breast for three years in a row. I recall him telling me not to worry about it. He even dismissed my concern that my left nipple had become inverted. I've had a mastectomy and radiation. I skipped chemo.