CLINICAL STUDY ON SIX CASES OF MALE BREAST CANCER

Abstract

Six cases of male breast cancer (representing 0.99% of all 604 cases of breast cancer) have been treated in our hospital during the last 13 years. The average age was 56.3 years. All the lesions were located at the peri-nipple resion. The average period of time from the onset of first symptoms to treatment was 11.0 months, including three patients who were treated within a week. Three patients had a stage I cancer, one had a stage II, and the remaining two had a stage III. There was no definite correlation between the staging and the duration of the illness. All six patients underwent a standard radical mastecotmy followed by postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. In addition, two patients received endocrine therapy, and one patient radiation. Four out of six patients are still without any sign of recurrence. We have lost two patients, whose causes of death were not recurrent cancer. Although the prognosis of male breast cancer has been beleived to be poor, a better result must be achieved by a radical surgery with adjuvant chemoendocrine therapy. The reductive surgery should be recommended more and more even in a male patient, because the number of early stage breast cancer have been increased in recent years.