Abstract:Apocrine carcinoma (AC) is a distinctive and rare type of malignancy, counted for 0.3-4% of all breast cancer cases. It does not have a particular clinical or radiological features, although it is characterized by the apocrine morphology, estrogen receptor-negative and androgen receptor-positive profile. In the present study, among 1122 patients with breast cancer only 5 of them were diagnosed with apocrine carcinoma (0.4%). All patients were above 50 years old (51-63, mean: 57). Tumor size varied from 1.4 cm … Show more
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