[WATCH]: Breast Cancer Rate Up For Younger Women Advanced Breast Cancer Rates Up In Younger Women

Breast Cancer Rate Up For Younger Women Advanced Breast Cancer Rates Up In Younger Women Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and the small change has experts scratching their heads about possible reasons. The results are potentially worrisome because young women's tumors tend to be more aggressive than older women's, and they're much less likely to get routine screening for the disease. Still, that doesn't explain why there'd be an increase in advanced cases and the researchers and other experts say more work is needed to find answers. It's likely that the increase has more than one cause, said Dr. Rebecca Johnson,

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