Metastatic male breast cancer
β Scribed by Irina Khachaturyan
- Book ID
- 113507488
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-9776
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22 men with metastatic breast cancer were treated with endocrine therapy. All 22 patients were initially treated by bilateral orchiectomy, and objective response was seen in 11 (50%) patients for 15 months. Bilateral adrenalectomy was performed subsequently in 10 patients, and 8 (80%) patients had a
Breast cancer in the male is an uncommon disease, occurring less than 1% as often as in females. Because of its rarity, this disease has not been as extensively studied as its female counterpart. Male breast cancer is evaluated and managed in a fashion very similar to that for female breast cancer.