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Busting Breast Cancer Myths: Younger People Don’t Get Breast Cancer
Oct 14, 2025
If you are someone under the age of 50, there are a lot of important life events that you can imagine in your future. Getting diagnosed with breast cancer is most likely not on that list of events, and for many young people, especially women, it never will be. However, there has been a growing number of younger women over the past few decades who are developing breast cancer, and researchers are trying to determine why.
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