فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction & Objective: To review the articles and data sources published on male breast cancer.Materials & Methods: Searching for male breast cancer in recent half decade results in more than10000 – links leading to 3472 chosen direct sours for male breast cancer which among 198 articles and websites from 1982 to 2006 has been mentioned. In this review; screening, diagnostic tools, surgery and adjuvanttherapy and also the prognosis has been analyzed.Results: Male breast carcinomas are 1% of male carcinomas, often presented with painless tumor andmean age of 60 world wide. Screen mammography is advisable only in first degree related breast carcinomacases and in genetic positive ones. Advised surgical procedure is mastectomy either modified or radical andsome case series rare reported conserving method. There are not clinical trials comparing differentchemotherapy regimes in male patients and so the adjuvant in males is the same as women. Prognosis is thesame as in females but males are diagnosed in later stages due to less informed concepts.Conclusions: Increase in attitude and approach quality in men is indicated.