Apocrine Carcinoma of Breast: A Case Report with Review of the Literature

Copyright © 2013 Jyotsna V. Wader et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Apocrine carcinoma is a very rare form of breast malignancy with an incidence of <1 % of female invasive breast carcinoma. We report a case of apocrine carcinoma in a 42-year female with marked adenosis showing apocrine metaplasia and discuss the criteria to diagnose apocrine carcinoma with the emerging concept of androgen receptor positivity with its implication on treatment and management of the patient. 1