Male breast cancer. A report of 71 cases.

Male breast cancer is rare; it constitutes 0.2-1.5% of all malignant tumours in men and 1% of all breast cancers. The goal of this retrospective study is to analyse the epidemiologic, clinic, therapeutic and evolutive profiles of this disease in 71 cases collected at the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco, between the years 1985 and 1998. The median age was 60 years. No significant risk factor was found. The average consultation's delay was 35 months. The main clinical complaint was a mass beneath the areola in 86% of the cases, associated with ulceration in 18% of the cases. For that, the disease was diagnosed at an advanced stage. Infiltrating ductal carcinoma was the most frequent pathologic type (91.5% of cases). Management consisted especially of radical mastectomy, followed by adjuvant radiotherapy and hormonal therapy with or without chemotherapy. It was possible to follow 58 of the patients. The median of follow-up was 30 months. The evolution has been characterized by local recurrence, after a median delay of 36 months, in five cases (8.5% of all patients). Metastasis occurred, after a median delay of 12 months, in 14 cases (24% of all patients). The site of metastasis was the bone in six cases, lung in five cases, liver in one case, liver and skin in one case and pleura and skin in one case. There were three cases of death. In one case, death was related to lung metastases. In the two remaining cases, death was due to comorbid disease. Progression was observed in one case.

[Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast. Report of three cases]. / Carcinome épidermoïde primitif du sein. A propos de 3 cas.

Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare neoplasma included in metaplastic breast cancer. The histogenesis remains unknown. Clinical and radiological appearances are not specific. Nodal involvement is rare and hormones receptors are negative. The treatment is based on surgery associated to radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Prognosis seems to be similar to others breast carcinoma. We report three cases of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast recruited at National Institute of Oncology with review of the literature.

[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the uterus: apropos of 4 cases and review of the literature]. / Lymphome non hodgkinien de l'utérus. A propos de quatre cas et revue de la littérature.

The primary non hodgkin's lymphoma of the uterus is rare. This rarity explains of one part certain difficulties of the histological diagnosis and on the other hand the absence of a therapeutic strategy clearly established. We report 4 cases of primary non-hodgkin lymphoma of the uterus. Two patients had a cervical location, the two other had corpus location. The average age of our patients is of 59 years (extremes: 54-68). Histological diagnosis was confirmed by biopsy for the cervical location. For the corpus location, it is study of the uterus after hysterectomy which retained the diagnosis of lymphoma. The type of the lymphoma was low grade in two cases and high grade in the two other cases. The disease was limited to the pelvis for all our patients (stage IE according to Ann-Arbor's classification). The treatment consisted of an association of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in both cases of lymphoma of the cervix and in a radical hysterectomy followed by chemotherapy for the two cases of lymphoma of the corpus. Our patients are regularly followed, with an average follow-up of 56 months. Two patients are in disease free, the third patient presented a dissemination of the disease and the fourth patient presented a squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.