Male breast cancer – case report and review of literature

*Konrad Wroński^{1, 2}

Summary
Male breast cancer is rare malignant neoplasm. It accounts less than 1% of all types of cancer in male. The American Cancer Society calculate that the annual incidence rate of male breast cancer is 1.09 per 100.000 men compared with 68.73 per 100.000 women in the United States. Due to its low incidence and a limited number of men with breast cancer there have been no prospective randomized clinical trials and no clinical management target for male breast cancer.
In the following article the author described a case of a man who reported to the hospital because of male breast cancer. The patient underwent surgery and in the third day after operation left the ward. The author of this article has reviewed the literature on male breast cancer.

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