Breast Cancer in Men

Breast cancer in men.

Most men with breast cancer present with a mass in the breast, the evaluation of which should include a tissue diagnosis. If the presence of invasive cancer is established, adequate local therapy includes total removal of the breast. Most tumors are hormone-receptor positive. In high-risk patients, the use of endocrine adjuvant therapy and/or combined endocrine and chemotherapy should be consid...

Breast cancer in men.

O ne of the rarest cancers in men, breast cancer occurs approximately 100 times less than in women. The lifetime risk of having breast cancer is 1 in 1,000 for men, and incidence has remained relatively stable over the past 30 years. Whereas in the past, the prognosis for men with breast cancer was thought to be worse than for women, recent research has found little difference in outcomes. But ...

[Epidemiology of breast cancer in men].

Incidence data for male breast cancer from 34 selected cancer registries in different parts of the world are presented. The geographic variation in incidence is similar to that observed for female breast cancer, resulting in a strong correlation between their respective rates, although certain populations have higher rates for male breast cancer than expected from the female incidence, notably ...

the study of aaag repeat polymorphism in promoter of errg gene and its association with the risk of breast cancer in isfahan region

چکیده: سرطان پستان دومین عامل مرگ مرتبط با سرطان در خانم ها است. از آنجا که سرطان پستان یک تومور وابسته به هورمون است، می تواند توسط وضعیت هورمون های استروئیدی شامل استروژن و پروژسترون تنظیم شود. استروژن نقش مهمی در توسعه و پیشرفت سرطان پستان ایفا می کند و تاثیر خود را روی بیان ژن های هدف از طریق گیرنده های استروژن اعمال می کند. اما گروه دیگری از گیرنده های هسته ای به نام گیرنده های مرتبط به ا...

Breast Implants and Breast Cancer

SHIRAZ BREAST CANCER STUDY PART II: SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY IN A OPULATIONBASED BREAST CANCER SURVEY

The purpose of this study was to assess the detection rate of mammography in breast cancer and the attendance rate in response to the call for screening mammography in females before the development of symptoms. One-thousand four-hundred and thirty-eight women over 35 years of age who had no complaint and had normal breast examinations were called for mammography. Out of the 10,000 women u...