Male breast cancer is uncommon disease accounting for approximately 1% of all breast cancers. Its rarity may prevent many physicians from seeing its natural history, cause, pathologic features, and prognosis. Compared with female breast cancer,
breast
cancer in men occurs in older age groups, manifests in a more advanced state, and produces higher incidence of central location and ulceration. A clinical study was performed to the 14 cases of male breast cancer patients at the department of
surgery,
Seoul National university in a 14-year span, from Jan. 1981 to Dec. 1994.
@ES The results were as following;
@EN 1) Prevalent age group was 8th decade(35.7%)
2) Their most common symptom was palpable mass(85.7%)
3) Five patinets(35.7%) visited hospital over 1 year had passed
4) There were nine tumors(64.3%) situated int he left breast and eleven tumors(78.6%) were circumareola located
5) According to the TNM staging system, 6 cases(42.9%) were advanced(over stage Ⅲ) stage breast cancer
6) Curative resections were performed in ten patints(71.4%) the procedurea were 2 cases of Radical Mastectomy, 4 cases of Modified Radical Mastectomy, 4 cases of Simple Mastectomy and Axillary node dissection
7) Postoperative adjuvant therapies including multimodality approach were performed in 7 cases of the patients
8) Nine patients were expired, 6 were died of recurrences or metastases of the breast cancer and 3 were the other causes, the median survival period was 44 months
We observed that male breast cancer were detected older and far advanced. So early detection and treatment are important po promote the survival of the male breast cancer patients
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