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METASTASES TO THE MALE BREAST
Author(s) -
Berge Thorbjörn
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1971.tb01849.x
Subject(s) - medicine , autopsy , carcinoma , metastasis , breast carcinoma , pathology , lymph node , prostate , mammary gland , oncology , breast tumours , breast cancer , cancer
In an autopsy series of 16, 294 subjects 7, 165 carcinomas were demonstrated. Among 2, 195 metastasizing carcinomas in men, 22 (1 per cent) were found to have metastases to the breast. The autopsy series contained 2 men with breast lesions diagnosed as primary. The primary tumour most often metastasizing to the breast was oestrogen‐treated prostatic carcinoma (20 of the 22 cases). Mammary tumours in patients with oestrogen‐treated prostatic carcinoma are probably metastases rather than independent primary tumours because: oestrogen therapy had usually been given for a short time and in relatively small doses, oestrogen therapy by induction of gynaecomastia may render the breast a preferential site of metastasis, the lesions of the breast are often multiple and bilateral, the lesions of the breast generally occur in patients with generalized spread to several lymph node stations and other organs, and careful histological examination often shows the same histological picture as the prostatic carcinoma.