There are about 350 men diagnosed each year in the UK, compared with around 50,000 cases of breast cancer in women. [2] 1 in 8 women and 1 in 870 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. Male breast cancer is diagnosed in 1% of cases of male breast enlargement. The incidence of male breast cancer has increased over a period of 25 years. The peak age for presentation of ma...

Male breast cancer, consisting only 1% of all breast cancers, is occasionally associated with other primary malignancies, especially in patients with familial breast cancer history. Sporadic male breast cancers with another primary tumor are extremely rare. We report a 67-year-old male with asynchronous bilateral breast cancer and prostate cancer without familial breast cancer history.

Truth or myth is seldom encountered in the practice of surgery, especially in cases of breast diseases. Yet, even after thousands of years of treating breast disease by surgeons/healers, fibroadenoma in the male breast seems to be a myth, due to the absence of fibro-glandular tissue. We wish to break this myth by our own experience as well as other studies by others all over the world, and unve...

BACKGROUND Male breast cancer is rare and represents less than 1% of all breast cancers. Considering the fact that the male breast most often does not consist of lobules and acini, lobular carcinoma of the male breast is exceptionally rare. CASE REPORT In this paper we present a unique case of alveolar variant of lobular male breast cancer in a 56-year-old patient. CONCLUSION According to o...

Breast cancer is a rare disease in men and represents only approximately 1% of all breast cancer cases. Several factors have been reported to increase the risk for male breast cancer, including alteration in hormonal status, Klinefelter’s syndrome, family history of breast cancer, and occupational exposures to high temperature, electromagnetic fields, and radiation. 3 Germline mutations in the ...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY DESIGN Male breast cancer (MBC) is a rare disease compared with female BC and our current understanding regarding breast carcinogenesis in men has been largely extrapolated from the female counterpart. We focus on differences between the ethical issues related to male and female BC patients. A systematic literature search by using PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...