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A question about young age...
I didn't want to start a new thread on this, but I was wondering anyone out there can shed some light on the "younger women have more aggressive breast cancer" school of thought...
From the first time I read this, I wanted to know "why, and what makes it so?" From what I can find it is very vague, other than to say that we aren't looking for it as much (BSE and mammograms), therefore leading to a later diagnosis. I guess ER+ would play into it, as we have longer to have all that estrogen floating around. I kind of feel it isn't "fair" to put that tag on younger women. Hell, none of this is fair when it comes down to it.
One thing my oncologist said is that we "have longer to recur". I know that I am one of the youngers ones here, and that some of you may not have had reason to look into this. If you have, please send me a PM, as I am always looking to the root of what the standard literature says!
Take care and good night,
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Krista
Diagnosed 3/29/2007 @ age 34
Stage 1, Node Neg. (SNB), Grade 2, 1.4 cm. IDC
ER/PR 90%+ HER2 +
6 TCH started 5/25/2007, ended after #5 due to steroid "reactions" and neuropathy in feet and hands
BUT--#6 CH w/o Taxotere
Begin Herceptin alone 9/28/2007
30 rads completed 12/19/2007
Finish Herceptin 5/9/2008
Stopped Tamoxifen early--HATED it.
Married 17 years
13-year old son
3 embies on ice (from 1999)
GA, USA
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