This NHS breast cancer blind spot is putting young women seriously at risk – here's what needs to change
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Neringa from Šiauliai felt healthy, but was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. Specialists emphasize that it is important to form health habits and pay attention to one's body at a young age, because young people of working age are increasingly being diagnosed with cancer. Patients who are diagnosed with cancer before the age of 50 are considered young patients and are classified as early-onset cancer, the insurance company Compensa Life Vien…
This NHS breast cancer blind spot is putting young women seriously at risk – here's what needs to change
When Laura Price found a lump in her left breast, doctors told her that due to her age – 29 – it probably wasn’t cancer. It was more likely a fibroadenoma, a benign breast lump, they said. By the time she had a mammogram and biopsy four months later, she had stage-three cancer, with her tumour having more than doubled in size from her first test. Earlier this month, research revealed that NHS risk assessment guidelines are missing 95% of women u…
Cancer death rates in the United States have been steadily declining. But a troubling pattern has emerged amid the optimism: Older women are not the group with the fastest growth in new cancer diagnoses. The sad trend has hit millennial women, born roughly between 1981 and 1996, who are now in their 30s and 50s.
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