Open AccessRelation between male breast cancer and prostate cancer
Author(s) -
L H Sobin,
Mohamed H. Sherif
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.833
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1532-1827
pISSN - 0007-0920
DOI - 10.1038/bjc.1980.313
Subject(s) - breast cancer , prostate cancer , prostate , cancer , incidence (geometry) , medicine , oncology , gynecology , mathematics , geometry
than an inverse, relation between these 2forms of cancer, extending from the verylow incidence among Japanese to thehighest rates for U.S.A. blacks.Possible explanations ofthis result are:that breast cancers develop in patientswith prostate cancer following treatmentwithoestrogens; andthatprostate cancersmaymetastasize to thebreast andpresentas primary carcinomas (Salyer & Salyer,1973). Datafrom the Birmingham (U.K.)Cancer
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