radiology #11

1. Be live it or not but men get cancer to! About 30% of males with breast cancer, family history is positive for the disease. Male cancer is a lot similer to women. But this iss really rare. Males with Klinefelter syndrome have a risk of breast cancer that is also very commen to women. But the wired thing it that from 1973-1998, and the reasons for this are unclear! the doctermake sure to have x-rays of the pationent to get rid of the cancer.(paregrph one-six)





2."The overwhelming histologic subtype of breast carcinoma in men is ductal or unclassified (93.7%), followed by papillary (2.6%). Infiltrating lobular carcinoma is rare in males, likely due to the rarity of terminal lobules in the male breast. Ductal carcinoma in situ is also less common among male patients with breast cancer, most likely because a higher prevalence of screening detects ductal carcinoma in situ in women. All other types of breast cancer, including medullary, colloid, cystosarcoma phyllodes, and Paget disease, are reported in males. Estrogen receptors are present more commonly in males with breast cancer than in women, occurring in 75-94% of males with cancer."





3.Marilyn A Roubidoux, MD, Professor of Radiology, Department of Breast Imaging, University of Michigan Medical Center.


Breast Cancer, Male.


February 2, 2005


09-09-08

http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic115.htm