Breast carcinoma associated with klinefelter syndrome: A case report

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Journal of Surgical Oncology

Vol. 10 (5) , 413-415
https://doi.org/10.1002/jso.2930100506

Abstract

Klinefelter syndrome increases the risk of developing breast cancer to approximately 1/5 that of women and 20 times that of normal men. A case report and the patient's response to hormone manipulation for metastatic disease is described.

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