Diagnosis and treatment of 17 cases male breast cancer / 中华内分泌外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical features and treatment of male breast cancer. Methods Retrospective analysis was made on 17 cases of male breast cancer treated in our hospital and the City Peoples Hospital from 1995 to 2009. Results The number of male breast cancer accounted for 0.7% of the total breast cancer admitted in the same period. All the 17 cases were diagnosed by pathology, including 10 cases infiltrating ductal carcinoma, 3 cases Paget disease, 2 cases adenocarcinoma, 1 case medullary carcinoma and 1 case mucinous adenocarcinoma. Conclusions The common symptom of male breast cancer is a painless lump under the areola, sometimes with nipple retraction, nipple discharge, and pain. Prognosis of male breast cancer is related to treatment timing and whether the treatment is standard or not. Surgical approaches are mainly based on modified radical mastectomy and radical mastectomy. Autologus skin graft is often needed. Postoperative chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy and traditional Chinese medicine therapy depend on clinical and pathological features.