Invasive intracystic papillary carcinoma of the male breast: A case report of a 79 year male with advanced breast cancer at presentation

Abstract

Published data on male breast cancers (MBCs) are scare in Ghana. We report a case of breast cancer in a 79-year old man, who presented at the Tamale Teaching surgical unit with a clinically advanced stage of the disease. He had modifified mastectomy and an invasive intracystic papillary cancer was diagnosed histologically. Immunohistochemically, this tumour was ER+/PR+ /HER2-However, hormonal therapy could not be started, for the 79-year old before he died in the third week after being discharge from the hospital.

Keywords

Intracystic papillary / Male breast cancer / Advanced stage / Immunohistochemistry / Tamale / Ghana

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We wish to express our profound gratitude to the deceased son for the verbal consent and to all staff of Der Medical Diagnosis Centre Limited, Tamale for their valuable support.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE

We obtained verbally permission from the Mr IF son, a biomedical scientist working at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.

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