Kathy, Here are some resources about breast lumps, courtesy of our wonderful Beverly Vaugh. She found these while searching for info wrt lumps in male children, but these are great sites regardless of gender:-) Warmly, Anna Swisher, MBA, IBCLC This is from a lecture series and has references at the end -- the home page is a site about male breast cancer: http://home.att.net/~reproduction/lecture4and5/lecture4and5.html and http://interact.withus.com/interact/mbc/about.htm the "interactwithus" site seems to be the site most other places referred to for more information on male breast cancer. This is from breastdoctor.com -- male breast disease: http://www.breastdoctor.com/breast/men/ A University of Iowa info on male breast cancer: http://www.surgery.uiowa.edu/surgery/physpubs/malebreastcancer.html emedicine.com about male breast cancer: http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic115.htm this one has interesting information on breast development; male breasts are in section 6: http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic214.htm an article from the Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine on male breast cancer that has references: http://www.mmhc.com/jgsm/articles/Jgsm0004/donegan.htm this article on the CBS site has reassuring language for parents, and recommends that lumps be seen for diagnosis: http://cbs.medscape.com/cx/viewarticle/205100_print AND -- this is not exactly related but may be useful for lactation -- a Univ. of Michigan detailed anatomy table -- listing topography, bones, muscles, veins, arteries, etc: http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/coursepages/M1/anatomy/html/thorax/pectoral_tables.html *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
