Largest ever study of male breast cancer treatment shows more mastectomy, less radiation than in female disease

(University of Colorado Denver) University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers used data from 4,276 cases of male breast cancer and 718,587 cases of female breast cancer to show that the disease is treated differently in men than in women. Specifically, male breast cancer is treated with mastectomy more often than female breast cancer, and in cases in which locally advanced female breast cancer is commonly treated with radiation, the treatment is less used in the male disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news