title: [Cancer and nipple discharge].
abstract: The authors, in a retrospective study, have looked at the clinical and paraclinical parameters that suggest that a cancer may be present when there is a nipple discharge. By using logistic regression on these criteria a model has been able to be constructed with four variables (bloody discharge, and associated palpable tumour, a suspicious mammographic appearance and atypical or proliferating cells in cytology). The probability of a cancer being present varies between three per thousand when none of the four variables are present to 99.1% when all four are present. A first outline of the therapy that can be used is suggested.
authors.affiliation: Clinique gynécologique, Hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Forest
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brémond
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rochet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D009558:Nipples / Q000378:metabolism*; D011336:Probability; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Cancer et écoulement par le mamelon.