[Breast cancer in the male. A long-term follow-up study of 55 patients]

Between 1964 and 1988, 55 male patients were treated for breast cancer. Fifty-one patients were treated by radical mastectomy; only four patients underwent a simple mastectomy. Nineteen cases received postoperative radiotherapy, eleven cases chemotherapy, six cases adjuvant hormonal therapy, and one patient was submitted to orchiectomy. The five-year survival rate for tumors with nodal metastases was 37%, as compared with 57% for patients with negative nodes.