Melissa Jackson wore pink and owned it during the fashion show and fundraiser featuring breast cancer survivors that is the Pink Promenade in Mount Pleasant. While she is doing very well six years after her diagnosis, Jackson is part of a concerning trend as breast cancers are increasing, particularly among younger women, even as deaths decline. In its biennial update, researchers for the American Cancer Society found that breast cancer increased 1 percent from 2012 to 2021, with the largest increase of 1.
4 percent in women under age 50, according to a study published earlier this month in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. It is a trend Dr. Philip Albaneze , director of breast cancer care at Roper St.
Francis Healthcare, is seeing in his patients. Breast cancer used to be considered a problem for post-menopausal women in their later years but more and more patients are younger now, he said. It is one of the reasons physicians and groups like the cancer society pushed to have recommended yearly mammograms begin at age 40 instead of 50 for women at normal risk, Albaneze said.
New breast cancer screening policy goes younger but not often enough, SC doctors say This year, the cancer society predicted there will be 310,720 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 42,250 will die from the disease. In South Carolina, that means 5,840 will be diagnosed and 780 will die. Fortunately, the majority of the recent new cases were early-disease tumors, the report found.
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