What Is The Percentage Rate For A 12 Year Old To Develop Breast Cancer?
with no history of it?
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November 1st, 2009 at 2:03 am
A 12 year old is considered a pediatric patient that is far more likely to get a childhood cancer than to get an adult onset breast cancer. There are no studies that have been done to determine the percentage rate for this age group to get an adult cancer. (adults typically get a type of cancer called carcinoma . .while children do not .. thus a cancer of the breast would be different in the pediatric groups).
There is no category to keep track of breast cancer in this age group . . there have been recent attempts to track the incidence of breast cancer between 15 – 29 years old . . though the same problems are encountered. There is some type of breast cancer . .but it is not the same as an adult women.http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/aya/…
Breast cancer can occur in children and adolescents and it can be a primary site or a secondary or metastatic site. Breast cancer is rare in this age group, but it occurs . . usually it is a type called Juvenile Secretory Carcinoma, but there are other types as well.
NCI: Childhood Breast Cancerhttp://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/t…
Not sure why you are asking this question . . young girls going through puberty at 12 years old often mistake normal lumps and bumps (breast buds) for cancer. Whatever the situation is . . the only way to know what you are dealing with is by a clinical examination from your doctor.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:34 am
If the child was born and as a fetus the mother did not smoke, drink, or do drugs, it highly unlikely but not unheard of, nothing is, is it?
However, there is a disease that forms in the breast millions of people have (I do) that causes lumps to develope inside the breast. They are painful and quite annoying. It’s liks a sisk growing and which means I will, and millions of other people have to take breast cancer into great mind.
If you are having painful feelings in your breasts, just check into your OBGYN. They will ask you some question and then lay you onto a doctor’s table and feel around your breasts. If you are uncomfortable, just talk to your mother, she may be able to do the procedure for you and tell the doctors what she found.
Best of luck.