Brief Review

Male Breast Cancer: A Different Disease than Female Breast Cancer?

Authors: Ashok Kumar Malani, MD

Abstract

An estimated 1,450 new cases of male breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 2004 compared with 215,990 new cases of breast cancer in women and only 470 men as compared with 40,110 women died as a result of breast cancer.1 These facts show the lower incidence of breast cancer in men and its comparable higher cancer-specific death rate.

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