Abstract

SANTIAGO PEREZ, Juana Teresa; RIVERA VALDESPINO, Amparo de la C  and  GIL VALDES, Doris. Male breast carcinoma. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2018, vol.57, n.1, pp. 78-86. ISSN 1561-2945.

Breast cancer in men is a rare disease. It accounts only for 1% of all breast cancers and is responsible for 0.1% of cancer deaths in men. Its incidence has increased in the last 25 years. Generally speaking, the form of presentation of the disease is a painless mass, which is retroareolar, with retraction of the nipple or without it. The disease in advanced stages (stages III-IV) occurs in more than 40% of patients. The most frequent histopathological variety is the infiltrating ductal carcinoma and the treatment of choice is modified radical mastectomy with axillary dissection. The objective of this work is the presentation of two cases diagnosed and treated at Salvador Allende Hospital, in addition to updating the topic.

Keywords : male breast carcinoma; cutaneous nodules.

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