Younger, more aggressive? Part Deux

[kcherub]

Okay, I brought up the line I said about it upsetting me that the general rule for younger women with breast cancer is that they "have more aggressive" disease, and thus a poorer prognosis. When I read this shortly after my diagnosis, I felt so hopeless. I tried and tried to find a concrete answer as to "why". Really, most times is just says that and nothing else.

Here is what he said and what I have found a little bit of online: Most younger women tend to have triple negative breast cancers.

As we all know, with tamoxifen and Herceptin, there are targeted therapies, plus chemo (although the jury is still out on it's true effectiveness with ER+). This is what I thought from the get-go, but it was nice to hear it from him. He "rocks", so I trust him. He seems to be a bit of a research-hound, himself.

Being T1, N0, M0 at diagnosis, I felt like I was lucky to have found it that early. Until I read that line. Not that those who are higher on that lovely scale we have all come to know by heart, are "worse" off, especially with Herceptin on our side! Like I always say, there is no prize for Stage 1 breast cancer.

Anyhoo, wouldn't it be nice if younger women weren't just tagged like this? By younger, they set that upon all women under 40 at diagnosis. There are a lot of us here!

Off my soapbox now.

Take care,