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Were you diagnosed with breast cancer at age 45 or younger? Or are you caring for someone who was? Navigating this experience can be lonely — it can sometimes feel like no one gets it. What do you wish others knew about having breast cancer at a young age? What do you wish you had known? Your answers may help others. Click…
Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at 26 November 8, 2024 When cancer researcher LaShae Rolle found a lump in her breast at age 26, she didn’t think it could be cancer, but decided to have a check-up just to be safe. She’s glad she did. Being diagnosed with breast cancer at any age is frightening and unexpected. But if you’re…
Sep 9, 2025 After genetic testing showed she had a BRIP1 mutation, Chelsea Vangrol’s doctor sent her for a baseline mammogram at age 25. A medical assistant at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Upstate New York, Chelsea Vangrol had seen young women diagnosed with breast cancer. But she never expected to be one of them. She…
Aug 8, 2025 Rafaela Dreisin shares her journey through diagnosis, treatment, and giving birth. At the start of her second trimester, Rafaela Dreisin was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36. Listen to the episode to hear Rafaela discuss: how she and her doctors decided on a treatment plan how she coped with…
Hey I am very newly diagnosed with triple negative IDC I think it's called and I just keep thinking what have I don't wrong? Is it my fault? I don't live the most healthy of life styles but I hardly drink don't do drugs don't smoke drink way to much fizzy drinks and eat to much but could I have done more. I'm only 37 and I…
Hi Ladies, I am wanting to know if there is anything I should consider besides being unable to breast feed about getting pregnant after a double mastectomy? I am impatiently waiting my biopsy results for suspected DCIS and am hoping that we will be able to get away with the surgery and no other treatment, we were trying to…
After Early-Stage Breast Cancer, Risk of Metastatic Recurrence Higher for Younger People Jan 16, 2025 Some breast cancers may be more likely to come back as metastatic disease five to 10 years after surgery in people ages 35 and younger. Read more…
Hi everyone I'm a little lonely over here in the UK and was hoping to find some kindred spirits. I'm now almost two years on from my diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Her 2+, weakly ER+ breast cancer in April 09 at the age of 37 about three months before we were due to be married and a few weeks after completion of our first…
Breast Cancer in Young Women: What We Know and Reducing Risk Dec 11, 2024 Dr. Matteo Lambertini discusses current research on breast cancer in women 40 and younger. Cases of breast cancer in young women have been increasing dramatically in the last eight years. Dr. Matteo Lambertini, whose research focuses on breast cancer…
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Breastfeeding After Breast Cancer Treatment Seems Safe September 14, 2024 Women — including women with a BRCA mutation — who breastfeed after receiving breast cancer treatment don’t have a higher risk of recurrence (the cancer coming back) or of a new breast cancer, according to two international studies presented on Sept.…
I decided to have kids a bit later because of my career and education, and I got diagnosed with breast cancer right before I was ready to have kids. Now I'm 32, and it's getting difficult to find people like me. I'd love to connect with any young breast cancer patients who are single, in relationship or married without…
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