Synchronous Breast and Rectal Cancers in a Man

Breast cancer in men is relatively rare and its coexistence with other primary non-breast cancers exceptional. Here, we report the case of a 50-year-old man who presented with symptoms of rectal adenocarcinoma and in whom a synchronous, asymptomatic cancer of the left breast was found incidentally a...

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Autores principales: Karayiannakis, Anastasios J., Kakolyris, Stylianos, Kouklakis, Georgios, Chelis, Leonidas, Bolanaki, Helen, Tsalikidis, Christos, Simopoulos, Constantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: May 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21734883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000328995
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Sumario:Breast cancer in men is relatively rare and its coexistence with other primary non-breast cancers exceptional. Here, we report the case of a 50-year-old man who presented with symptoms of rectal adenocarcinoma and in whom a synchronous, asymptomatic cancer of the left breast was found incidentally at physical examination.

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