does anyone out there think that there is more and more cancer in younger people? ages approximately 50 and un

Yes more people are checking out earlier and earlier from cancer. Unfortunately, in the past 30 years since it has been at the fore front of medicine and research the best answer is prevenitive medicine (do the numbers, does this look like it's working......?) NO. Why because what causes the cancer is oxidative stress on the body from all sorts of things. Air we breathe, food we eat, bad habits etc... you get the point. You can only see cancer (pre-screen) once the damage is already done. It is caused by enough bad cells concentrated together to do even greater harm. We can greatly reduce this with education. Cancer is not curable with a simple shot of this or a dose of that, but it is prevented with the right diet, excercise, and high quality nutritional supplement regimen. Again preventable not curable. Unfortunately for the drug companies there is NO money in that!

Breast lumps, like other symptoms, have to be considered along with other symptoms a woman may be having. For example, a new, tender lump that comes up at the same time as skin redness and a fever may be a sign of a breast infection. Still, any new lump or other change should be checked by a doctor or nurse, because at least one type of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer) can look a lot like an infection. Sometimes, even doctors have trouble telling the difference. Since this kind of breast cancer grows quickly, get back to the doctor right away with any breast infection that doesn't get better within a few days of being treated.

Detection is better these days. I have read a great deal of research on possible causes of a younger diagnosis, but I really think it comes down to a higher awareness of the risk. Breast cancer in women is certainly not limited to those in their forties and I was daignosed with ovarian cancer at 24, 6 years ago, but I had the benefit of working for doctors.

I am sorry for your loss. I'm still a fairly young woman with breast cancer in my family. The scare is unbelievable, I will be going for my 2ND mammography soon and pray they still see nothing. And yes I have issues with this(the environment, water, contamination) affecting young people more so now. But could it be that it's now widely talked about, therefore we think the statistics are higher. I have a very nice physician-friend that still won't talk stats. with me. Like you I would like to know the truth.

my cousin died last year she was 32, i agree it seems a lot of younger people are dying from cancer these days.