Chevalier B, Bastit P, Bastit P
Nouv Presse Med. 1981 Mar 7;10(11):901-4.
Breast cancer rarely occurs in males, and reliable epidemiological and aetiological studies are scarce. The condition is one hundred times less frequent than in females and usually develops around the age of 60, i.e. 8 years later on average than in women. Its incidence, however, is high in patients with Klinefelter syndrome. Clinical symptoms and paraclinical data are similar to those of female breast cancer. The overall prognosis is considered as being more severe, but the difference is reduced when the results are expressed as corrected survival rate. Treatment is predominantly surgical, radiation therapy being usually reserved to cases where surgery is contraindicated or used to complement surgery. Since breast cancer is hormone-dependent, patients with advanced stage of the disease may benefit from suppressive hormonal treatment.
男性乳腺癌很少见，可靠的流行病学和病因学研究也很匮乏。这种疾病的发病率比女性低百倍，通常在60岁左右发病，即平均比女性晚8年。然而，克兰费尔特综合征患者的发病率较高。其临床症状和辅助检查数据与女性乳腺癌相似。总体预后被认为更严重，但以校正生存率表示结果时，差异会减小。治疗主要是手术治疗，放射治疗通常仅用于手术禁忌或用于补充手术的情况。由于乳腺癌是激素依赖性的，疾病晚期患者可能从激素抑制治疗中获益。
