Courtesy of Michelle Friesen Michelle Friesen on a recent hiking trip. Then, she received a diagnosis that seemed so unlikely: she had breast cancer at age 36. ‘... technically too young to have breast cancer’ She’s young, she’s healthy, she breastfed both her children, and there’s no history of breast cancer in her family. “While you might technically be too young to have breast cancer, it happens. Eventually, hopefully, I will be considered cured.” About four to five per cent of breast cancer diagnoses occur in women under the age of 40, according to Rethinking Breast Cancer, a group focused on young women living with the disease.

Source: Huffington Post June 03, 2019 17:33 UTC