The solutions are straightforward when you understand the problem. If you know a man over the age of 50 who's not sleeping well, chances are good it's because he's got prostate problems that require visits to the bathroom a couple of times a night. It's estimated that benign prostate disease affects over 40 percent of American men by age 50 and over 70 percent by age 60. The most common symptom is trouble with urination. Such men may have urinary frequency (hence getting up at night), their urine flow may be decreased in force or rate, they may have urinary urgency, and they may feel that they haven't emptied the bladder (a sign of urinary retention), especially after drinking coffee.
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Although male breast cancer only accounts for less than one percent of all breast cancer, the fact that it increased in the U.S. by 26 percent between 1973 and 1998 is cause for concern. Breast cancer tumors in men tend to be detected later in life and at a later and more aggressive stage. The research, done at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, will be published in the July 1 issue of the journal Cancer. Men are also more likely to have estrogen receptor positive tumours.
 
Although it’s difficult to do good research on male breast cancer with such a small number of cases, there’s every indication that excess estrogen is the primary culprit in men’s breast cancer, as it is in women’s breast cancer. Past studies have shown that men with gynecomastia, an enlargement of the male breast, have a higher than normal oestrogen to androgen ratio, and others have hinted at an association between gynecomastia and breast cancer. The strongest risk factors for breast cancer in men are obesity and lack of exercise, which makes sense since fat cells in both men and women produce estrogen, and the more fat you have, the more estrogen you’ll make.
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