Male Breast Cancer

Pathophysiology
Most breast cancers in men are ductal carcinomas. Ductal means the cancer started in the milk pipes of the breast, called ducts. These cancers are usually invasive because they start inside the duct and then break through the wall of the duct, growing into the normal surrounding breast tissue.

Statistics
A median follow-up of 50 months (mean 63 months), 6 male BC patients out of 46 (13%) developed a second malignancy (excluding nonmelanoma tumours and in-situ carcinomas) at least six months after the ¬diagnosis of breast cancer.

Treatment 
The main treatment for breast cancer in men is surgery to remove the tumor. This is usually a mastectomy. Lumpectomy (also called breast conserving surgery) is rarely used because of the small size of a male breast. Some men may have radiation therapy