Male Breast Cancer - Clinical Presentation
The most common clinical presentation is a breast mass. Other signs/symptoms include nipple retraction, nipple ulceration, skin ulceration and, less commonly, nipple discharge, pain and pruritis. Due to the rarity of male breast cancer, the duration of symptoms before the diagnosis is made tends to be longer in males than in females with breast cancer. The mean duration of symptoms in several series ranges from 4 to 17 months. Anywhere from 25 - 43% of patients have symptoms for more than one year and 11 - 27% have symptoms for more than two years before diagnosis (