MALE BREAST CANCER: INFLUENCE OF T CATEGORY ON THE PROGNOSIS

Sochka A.V.

The study was designed to assess the pro- gnostic value of T category, in particular, its effect on the survival, as well as duration of relapse free and metasta- sis free periods in men with breast cancer. The study in- volved 168 patients with histologically verified diagno- sis. The size of the tumor was shown to be an important statistically relevant prognostic factor, which effects the patients’ survival. The frequency of the generalized pro- cess does not depend on the tumor’s size; the risk of re- mote metastases increases considerably in patients with any size of tumor provided that it grows into adjacent anatomic structures (category Т4, ТNМ Classification). Statistically considerable differences in the rate of re- lapses depending on the tumor size were not found.