How young can breast cancer affect you?

Does breast cancer only occur in women and men over a certain age? Because one of my friends claims she slipped into relapse for breast cancer but she's only 15. Can 15 year old girls even get breast cancer?|||Breast cancer is almost unheard of in under 25s; it's rare in women under 40 and 80 percent of those diagnosed with it are over 50.





A 15 year old's chances of developing breast cancer are very close to zero; I would assume your friend is pulling your leg especially as she appears to be claiming that this is the second time around, if I've understood you correctly


|||Yes. But childhood breast cancer is different and falls under different criteria than adult womens breast cancer. There are different types of breast cancer . . in adult women it is the breast cells that are cancerous . . but in children and adolescents the malignancy is located primarily in the breast but is a different type of cancer (there are more than one that can occur as a primary cancer or as a secondary cancer (metastatic). So, the answer . .is yes . . young people can have cancer occur in the breast location. But cancer in young people is rare to begin with . . so cancer with a breast location is considered rare in a young teen . .but it can happen.