Cancer of the male breast.A Report of 146 Cases

Malignant tumours of the male breast in Finland. A report of 51 cases.

“…The symptoms had persisted for an average of 12 months. Similar delay appears to occur elsewhere (Treves and Holleb, 1955;Greening and Aichroth, 1965;Edelman, 1967). The main cause of the delay is probably the patient's ignorance of the possibility of cancer of the male breast.…”

“…Mammary cancer was bilateral in 2 of our cases (5 per cent). Treves and Holleb (1955) (Somerville, 1952; Greening and Aichroth, 1965), we were unable to confirm the role of trauma in our series. It probably merely helps the patient notice the abnormality in his mammary gland.…”

“…Its incidence was 19 per cent in one material (Gilbert, 1933). However, most workers have been unable to establish a causal relationship between breast cancer and gynaecomastia (Huggins and Taylor, 1955;Treves and Holleb, 1955;Greening and Aichroth 1965).…”

An Analysis of Clinical and Histopathological Features in 101 Cases of Carcinoma of Breast in Women Under 35 Years of Age

“…Others (de Cholnoky, 1943;Truscott, 1947;Cade, 1948;MacDonald and Wilcox, 1956;Treves and Holleb, 1958;White, 1960;Watson, 1966) do not think that the prognosis is necessarily worse. Treves and Holleb (1958) found it impossible to predict results of treatment for any specific age below 35 years on the basis of age alone. Their 5 year clinical cure rates for the age groups, under 26 years, 26 to 30 years, 31 to 34 years were respectively 210%, 43 80% and 40.20%.…”

“…In Treves and Holleb's (1958) series about 10% of those under 35 had a family history of breast cancer. Following the pioneer work of Slye (1933) the significance of a family history has been confirmed by many authors (Penrose et al, 1948;Smithers, 1948;Smithers et al, 1952;Treves and Holleb, 1958). " Breast cancer families" have been reported by Wood and Darling (1943), Smithers et al (1952), Oliver (1958) and Stephens et al (1958).…”