Report: Advanced breast cancer rising in young women

Originally published: February 26, 2013 7:43 PM
Updated: February 26, 2013 10:17 PM
By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com

Photo credit: AP | Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, poses in an exam room at the hospital in Seattle. Johnson is the lead author of a new study that shows that advanced breast cancer cases have increased slightly among young women. (Feb. 25, 2013)

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Advanced breast cancer in young women has been rising for three decades, a trend occurring among all ethnicities that defies a marked decline in late-stage disease in older women, researchers report Wednesday.

Although the upswing is slight, experts Tuesday called it statistically significant -- and worrisome.

Reporting in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, investigators...

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