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as with all generalizations about breast cancer they are
confounded by lumping a lot of different diseases with different risk factors,prognoses and affecting different ethnic groups/those with different genetic predispositions into one.
It is like saying all dogs are hyperactive. It depends on their diet, activity, breed, blood-line, early environment, current environment, age, etc.
Well, triple negative breast cancer, which makes up a small minority of breast cancer is more common in younger than older patients and that can skew the results when making generalizations like this.
Triple positive bc is more common in the elderly, which is probably the source of the generalization that their bcs tend to be less agressive.
No matter what statistics are touted, all that matters is what you have!
And all you can do is try to keep informed and do what YOU think best (and try to get your doctor to help you along the way)
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