Is male breast cancer similar or different than female breast cancer?

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-86

  Anderson, William F ^a   Althuis, Michelle D ^a   Brinton, Louise A ^a   Devesa, Susan S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age frequency distribution; Estrogen receptor expression; Incidence rates; Male breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE BREAST; ONSET AGE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942301253     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BREA.0000010701.08825.2d     Document Type: Article

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