I know teenage girls are able to get breast cancer, but I've heard that it wouldn't be able to kill them while they're a teen. Is this true? Because I know someone's best friend who died of breast cancer, and she was just a teen. Or are they lying?
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It's possible for any person at any age to die of cancer...no matter where in the body it is located.
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cancer doesn't care how old you are. if its potent enough, it could take anyone over. <3
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Breast cancer can kill anyone. It all depends on the stage at which it is caught
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No. Everyone on the planet BUT teenagers can die from breast cancer.
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sadly yes, age does not matter,
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First of all anyone can die at any time (no need for any disease such as cancer) and secondly as many know cancer (doesn't matter where it is located) will eventually kill the person. Therefore, anyone and for any reason (especially cancer) can die. ~Vogue
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any one can
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I am 43 years old, and I Have Breast Cancer. MY Doctor thinks I am WAY Too Young for it, and was actually Shocked by the Pathology Report. So being a Teenager, your chances of dying let alone "getting Breast Cancer" are far and away!
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yes u can die of cancer basically anytime but most people dont die of it in the early stage
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You are a little confused. Just to be clear cancer is a life threatening disease and can kill at any age including infants, children, teens, young adults and older adults. What is confusing you is that cancer is often age specific . . certain types of cancer occur in certain age groups and almost never in other age groups . . for instance . . children get a type of childhood cancer called Neuroblastoma but adults never get it. Older adults tend to get the more common cancers such as breast, lung, and colon cancers while the young rarely if ever get them. So the problem is trying to apply breast cancer to a teenager . . it is possible for a teen to get tumors in the chest area, even the breast but it is usually not the typical type of breast cancer. Teens are more likely to get Rhabdomyosarcoma in the breast or chest area . . and yes, it is deadly and teens can die from it.
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While this is a remote possibility, it is highly unlikely. A 16 - 20 year old has about a 1 in 1 million chance of even getting breast cancer. Breast cancer is rarely fatal if treated in the early stages. It would be unlikely to have progressed to a point where it was terminal while she was still in her teens. This is far more likely to be (as Panda correctly states) a childhood cancer that happened to occur in the chest area.
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Unfortunately cancer doesn't care how old anyone is! Cancer can strike anywhere in our bodies at any age & has the capability to kill us. :(
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The chances of a teenager having breast cancer at all, much less dying from it, are so close to zero that it makes just about no difference. Breast cancer is almost unheard of in under 25s; in fact fewer than 0.1% of all those diagnosed with it are under 30 and only 5% are under 40. Like ChemoAngel (who gave her answer a thumbs down?) i was classed as a 'younger woman' when I was diagnosed with breast cancer; I was 50. You clearly didn't actually know the teenager your friend says died of breast cancer; stories like this are usually second hand at best. It's possible that she had a childhood cancer that happened to be located in her chest; but it is beyond unlikely that she had breast cancer
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