Dealing with breast cancer from a young age

• April 25, 2024

Oncologists indicate that the appearance of cancer cells in young adolescents is as likely to happen as the likelihood of let lightning strike you , according to publications of the portal of the ABC News Medical Unit. And although breast cancer is a condition that suffers at any age, women who suffer from it in their twenties, in their adolescence or at an even earlier stage, have a unique problem that complicates the already devastating diagnosis .

The treatment of breast cancer in young women is very likely to be applied much more aggressively, than in older women, because as they rarely have had exposure to mammography, it is less likely that cancer tumors have been detected in a stage initial. A young age is a risk factor , regardless of the cancer, without taking into account the family history of cancer or a genetic predisposition to certain mutations in the genes.

Dr. Ann Partridge, Director of the Program Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston, says in the publication that young women face the same problems that cancer patients have to deal with -as a disease that potentially threatens your life, with mortality, with toxic treatments, breast surgery, among others-. However, if you have cancer being very young too you deal with problems that relate to your age , which are more accentuated.

Breast cancer is the number one cause of death among women between 15 and 54 years of age, according to the National Cancer Institute, but breast cancer in women under 40 It is extremely weird.

Because in medicine there are very few cases of young people with breast cancer, there is a gap when it comes to research on its consequences in the fertility, in early menopause and other effects of the diagnosis and its treatment.

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