title: Cancer of the male breast in Zaria, Nigeria.
abstract: Sixteen Nigerian men presented with advanced breast cancer to Ahmadu Bello University Hospital in Zaria, Nigeria over the 15-year period 1975 to 1989. This comprised 9% of patients with breast cancer seen during this period. They had a median age of 55 years, median symptom duration of 12 months and median tumour size of 8cm; 14 (87.5%) of the patients had Stage IV cancer at presentation. Anaplastic and infiltrating ductal carcinomas accounted for 25% and 56.3% respectively, of the tumour histological type. Mastectomy was the mainstay treatment modality. Only 4 patients came for follow-up, for a median duration of 8.5 months. Overall, this pattern is very similar to the pattern of breast cancer in Nigerian women.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018567:Breast Neoplasms, Male / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014504:Urban Health