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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 11 year old son came to me to say he has a lump under his nipple, and it’s sore. I checked, and he does. A hard lump about half the diameter of his (small, skinny boyish) areola. I Googled, and half of boys develop breast tissue during puberty. I’m trying to not worry about it, and I’ll take him to the ped soon, but wondered if what he is experiencing is in the range of typical. The websites seemed to indicate it was visible, and looks like man boobs. I have a skinny boy, and this is a lump of firm tissue right below the nipple so where I assume puberty hormone impacted tissue should be. Anyone been there done that?[/quote]

I don't know anything about this, but I would treat the lump as if it were more alarming than a lump in a woman's breast.

My understanding is that breast cancer in men is much more aggressive than breast cancer in women.

I think you should go on the Health forum here and ask people there for ideas about how to proceed.

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I think she should go to the doctor! It's almost certainly no big deal but there's a chance it IS a big deal. So go to the doctor. This doesn't sound at all like breast tissue.[/quote]

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