Treatment delays result in poor outcomes for men with breast can...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 07/05/2008 - 23:00

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Men who develop breast cancer are often not treated until the disease has spread to the point that treatment becomes difficult, new results show.

Although most breast cancer patients are women, men make up roughly 1 percent of cases, Dr. Marina Garassino from the Orion Collaborative Group reports at the ESMO Conference Lugano, organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology.


 

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