Male breast câncer: a study of 13 cases
Keywords:
Breast cancer, Breast cancer in men, Male breast cancerAbstract
The authors have done a review of cases ofmale breast câncer from August 1989 to July
2002 at Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz and Instituto de Mama do Recife, Recife-PE. There
were 430 male patients analyzed, 13 of them with breast câncer. The average age was 65
years and mostpatients were on stage II. The treatment was, in general, surgery, chemotherapy,
radiotherapy and hormohe therapy, as used for female breast câncer, obtaining good resuits.
This study shows how important it is to search breast câncer in ali male breast diseases, in
order to reach earlier diagnoses.
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