Old analysis of 16 cases of male breast cancer.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Old analysis of 16 cases of male breast cancer [Keywords:] male breast cancer; diagnosis; treatment Male breast cancer is very rare, accounting for men, 0.1% of all cancers and 0.2%, accounting for 0.5% of all breast cancer 1% 1. Because of its low incidence, diagnosis and treatment of male breast cancer is far less than the female breast cancer, clinical diagnosis and treatment of male breast cancer in women more than draw on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. But breast cancer is a hormone dependent tumor, due to the different hormone levels, clinical features of male breast cancer different from female breast cancer, with unique biological characteristics, different from the old and young, male breast cancer male breast cancer. At present, about the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in older men are few reports, this collection of hospital cancer hospital since April 1993 to April 2007 admitted during the surgical treatment of male breast cancer case information, select one of the 16 cases of male breast cancer cases over 60 years, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment were analyzed in order to enrich the prevention and treatment of elderly male breast cancer information. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General information on breast cancer in this group of 16 patients, all male, age range 60 to 88 years, median age 67.5 years, the first symptom to diagnosis 1 month to 4 years outside the hospital .6 cases of excision biopsy of breast tumor to our hospital for treatment. the breast mass as initial symptom in 15 cases, including 1 case associated with nipple discharge, lump in the left internal mammary 9 cases, 6 cases of right breast to bloody nipple discharge as the first symptom of a cases. lesions in the breast upper outer quadrant in 1 case, in the upper quadrant of the 2 cases in from the areola area 2 cm or less in 7 patients, tumor location medical records not available in 6 cases (the 6 patients to