TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditions of the male breast
T2 - Gynaecomastia and male breast cancer (Review)
AU - Alali, Laila
AU - Honarpisheh, Helen
AU - Shaaban, Abeer
AU - Speirs, Valerie
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Breast disease most commonly affects females; however, a small percentage of men are also affected. Understandably given its low incidence, awareness of male breast disease is low, particularly among the general population. We searched the Medline database from 1950 onwards using the search terms male, breast, neoplasms and gynaecomastia, and reviewed the conditions associated with male breast disease, examining some of the risk factors and discussing how these conditions are diagnosed and treated, and finally putting forward some suggestions for their future management.
AB - Breast disease most commonly affects females; however, a small percentage of men are also affected. Understandably given its low incidence, awareness of male breast disease is low, particularly among the general population. We searched the Medline database from 1950 onwards using the search terms male, breast, neoplasms and gynaecomastia, and reviewed the conditions associated with male breast disease, examining some of the risk factors and discussing how these conditions are diagnosed and treated, and finally putting forward some suggestions for their future management.
KW - Gynaecomastia
KW - Male breast cancer
KW - Males
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=76149124215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3892/mmr_00000213
DO - 10.3892/mmr_00000213
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21472195
SN - 1791-2997
VL - 3
SP - 21
EP - 26
JO - Molecular Medicine Reports
JF - Molecular Medicine Reports
IS - 1
ER -
