title: [Four cases of male breast cancer including one synchronously combined with gastric cancer].
abstract: Four men with primary breast cancer were seen between 1972 and 1985 at the Sasebo Municipal Hospital. They were admitted complaining of breast mass and/or bloody nipple discharge. There was no delay between the onset of symptoms and seeking medical advice. They had relatively early stages of disease (three patients had stage I and one had stage II). All patients were treated by modified radical or radical mastectomy. Histopathological study revealed ductal carcinomas and no lymph node metastasis in all patients. Multiple bone metastasis and death occurred in one case. One patient (61 years old) had two separate synchronous primary cancers of the breast and stomach, which is very uncommon.
mesh_terms: D000231:Adenocarcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*