Premium
Cancer of the male breast with prolonged survival
Author(s) -
Siddiqui Tariq,
Weiner Roy,
Moreb Jan,
Marsh Robert D.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19881015)62:8<1632::aid-cncr2820620829>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , male breast cancer , breast cancer , disease , retrospective cohort study , cancer , surgery , oncology , paleontology , biology
A retrospective review of patients suffering from male breast cancer was carried out at the Shands Teaching Hospital of the University of Florida. Thirteen evaluable cases were analyzed. Three patients were in Stage I, two patients in Stage II, none in Stage III, and eight in Stage IV. Two of the patients with Stage IV disease have had remarkably prolonged survivals of 194 months and 128 months. Such prolonged survivals are unusual. It is possible that the biology of male breast cancer is different from the female, and the disease should be approached more optimistically than it has in the past.