Breast cancer rates on the rise for young women in Canada, study says

Young women in Canada were more likely to get breast cancer in recent years than three decades ago, according to a new analysis that shows the rates increased most among patients in their 20s and 30s.The study, published Friday in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, found that young women are still much less likely to develop breast cancer than senior citizens, but their risk is increasing in a way that mirrors findings about early onset cancer in other countries and other parts of the body.“Twenty years ago, we saw women with breast cancer in their 20s so rarely that it would be something we would show in rounds,” said Jean Seely, head of breast imaging at the Ottawa Hospital and one of the study’s authors. “Now we’re seeing it on a regular basis.”