[Male breast cancer: history, epidemiology, genetic and histopathology].

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Breast carcinoma is a rare disease in men. The incidence is 1 per cent of the incidence in women. Relative hyperestrogenemia and environmental factors seem to be important for the development of the disease. In recent years, germline mutations have been observed in male breast carcinoma patients in several genes, BRCA2, the androgene receptor gene and PTEN. Suspected genetic factors include the cell-cycle...

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