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Case Reports
. 2022 Nov 10:166:D6672.

[Atypical presentation of male breast cancer]

[Article in Dutch]
Cor J Ravensbergen  1   2 , Nancy D Kemmers  3 , Rachel E J Roach  4 , Sidney A Rebergen  5 , Pieter C Clahsen  6 , Onno R Guicherit  3
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Case Reports

[Atypical presentation of male breast cancer]

[Article in Dutch]
Cor J Ravensbergen et al. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. .

Abstract

Background: Approximately 1% of all breast cancers occur in men. With an annual incidence of 130 cases in the Netherlands, the occurrence of male breast cancer is rare.

Case description: We report the case of a 72-year-old male who was referred to a breast outpatient clinic for the evaluation of a multinodular skin lesion of the nipple. The nipple lesion was found to be an invasive carcinoma of the breast with neuroendocrine differentiation. Retrospectively, a breast abnormality could be detected on radiologic imaging 2 years prior to cancer diagnosis.

Conclusion: Breast cancer in men is associated with an increased diagnostic delay compared to women and is subsequently diagnosed at a later stage. Studies on the survival of breast cancer report worse survival in men compared to women. Health care professionals should be alerted to the presence of a malignancy when dealing with abnormalities of the male breast.

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