Advanced breast cancer inching up in young women

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More young women are being diagnosed with advanced, metastatic breast cancer than were three decades ago, a new study suggests – although the overall rate of cancers in that group is still small. One in 173 women will develop breast cancer before she turns 40, researchers said, and the prognosis tends to be worse for younger patients. In the new study, a team led by Dr. …