Epidemiology and survival of men diagnosed with breast cancer

Abstract

Malignant tumors of male breast are a rare phenomenon not only in Russia but also in other countries. Possibility to evaluate the incidence of these tumors among men appeared in Russia only since 2011. In Leningrad such data are published since 1980 and then they became a part of data on primary male patients with breast cancer in the IARC monographs “Cancer in 5 continents” from VI up to X volumes. This paper presents an analysis of the prevalence of breast cancer in men through the world and Russia. Detailed characteristics of data on patients according to digit 4 of ICD-10, the level of morphological verification along different age groups and the feature of histological structure of tumors has been conducted on database of the Population-based Cancer Registry of St. Petersburg. For the first time there are estimated relative survival rates in men diagnosed with breast cancer on the population level.