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men of lemmy, if you've ever taken estrogen, what was it like?
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It makes it more likely that you'd get breast cancer - since you would start to grow breasts - but otherwise, no.
Men can technically get breast cancer even if they haven’t taken estrogen. Estrogen causes more breast tissue to form, but men have a small amount of breast tissue to begin with. It’s statistically unlikely to happen, since there’s less tissue. But it does happen occasionally. It’s all just a numbers game; More breast tissue means more potential cancer cells.