Problems (and solutions) in the study of male breast cancer

• DOI: 10.4081/rt.2010.e28
• Publication Date: 2010-05-05T12:12:56Z
• Authors: Valerie Speirs; Steven Pollock; Abeer M Shaaban; Andrew M Hanby
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Case Report; 3. Good health

Owing to its rarity, large-scale retrospective studies in male breast cancer have suffered from the small numbers of cases available for study from any one center. Here we describe our experience in establishing a large collection of male breast cancers in tissue microarray format suitable for biomarker analysis by immunohistochemistry.