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Anyone here(or know someone who has) been diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age?

Id like to here a brief story about it. How it came to be diagnosed and what prompted the concern to begin with and anything else that may relate.

Please, only stories from experience. Im not asking for facts or statistics.

I thought I was young at 43. Then I met a sixteen year old girl who was being treated for it.

I knew someone who was diagnosed at 28, and two who were diagnosed at 32; both these ages are very young indeed for breast cancer. Of the many women I've met through breast cancer support networks, they are the youngest by a long way.

As far as I know, all three discovered breast lumps.

I know you have had all the statistics so I won't repeat them. But when I was diagnosed, i was classed as 'young', and I was 50.

Best wishes.

I was classed as "young" at 45, My sister was younger at 40.
Several women in my breast cancer support group were diagnosed in their 30's.
All of us felt lumps and went to Dr's.

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