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Although more and more women are surviving breast cancer, the disease is becoming more common, particularly at younger ages. Anew reportshows the breast cancer rate rose by 1% annually from 2012 to 2021, with even greater increases among women under age 50 and a startling jump even among women...
Breast cancers in very young women are typically aggressive, in part owing to the over-representation of high-grade, triple-negative tumours, but young age is an independent negative predictor of cancer-specific survival. Very early age-of-onset also correlates strongly with the risk of local ...
“Many young women with newly diagnosed breast cancer are concerned about fertility in a way that impacts their treatment decisions. Concerns were discussed, but few used fertility preservation strategies. These findings have implications for counseling young patients,” concluded the study authors. ...
Breast cancerPremenopausalYoungMRITomosynthesisMastectomyBRCAChemotherapyEndocrine therapyPrognosisBreast cancer in women of childbearing age (premenopausal breast cancer) accounts for almost one-quarter of all breast cancer diagnoses in the United States. Advances in diagnosis and treatment have led to improved...
This eighth article in our series on breast disease focuses on breast cancer in young women. There are several challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer in young women, and special consideration must be given to the woman's fertility and body image issues. The difficulty in distinguishing ...
young women, increasing HOMA-IR has been associated with a positive trend for breast cancer recurrence in ER-/PR-negative patients (pfor trend = 0.087) and an inverse trend in ER-/PR-positive patients (pfor trend = 0.081) among a general population of breast cancer patients [65]. In a...
But a lot more research remains. Lambertini, Partridge, and a team of researchers recentlystudiedmore t han 1,250 young women with breast cancer and a germlineBRCApathogenic variant. They found that pregnancy had no impact on a woman’s likelihood of recurrence and no increased concern of birth...
Althoughbreast cancer in young womenis rare, a significant number of cases occur in women who are 40 years or younger. “Age matters because the behavior of the tumors in younger women is typically more aggressive in comparison with older women,” says Monica Valero, MD, a b...
Even as more young women with breast cancer opt to have mastectomies, many experience a persistent decline in their sexual and psychosocial well-being following the procedure, as detailed in new research by Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center. The findings