There are about 11,000 women aged 40 and under diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the U.S. says Dr Ann Partridge, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. That’s a small percentage of the 260,000 women diagnosed annually in this country.
But in some ways a diagnosis for a younger woman can often be even more devastating because, as Dr Partridge says, the cancer is likely to be a more aggressive form of the disease and also at an advanced stage, because screening for younger women is not standard.
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