Can a 12-year-old get breast cancer?

Can a 12-year-old get breast cancer?

1. A 12-year-old may get breast cancer. Breast cancer at 12 years old is rare, but the possibility of breast cancer cannot be ruled out, especially for those with a family history of breast cancer.

2. Early breast cancer often presents as a painless, single small lump on the affected breast. Late-stage infiltration and metastasis can lead to multi-organ lesions throughout the body, directly threatening life. When the tumor invades the suspensory ligaments of the breast, it causes depression of the skin on the surface of the breast, known as dimple syndrome. When cancer cells block the subcutaneous lymphatic vessels, it causes lymphatic reflux obstruction and the skin changes to an orange peel-like state. Clinically, there is also an inflammatory breast cancer, in which patients may have symptoms similar to acute mastitis, with redness, edema, roughness, and increased temperature of the breast skin, which develops rapidly and has a very poor prognosis.

3. Breast cancer is mainly treated with surgery. Commonly used breast cancer improvement radical treatment, breast cancer resection, breast cancer radical mastectomy, and total mastectomy can be selected according to the scope and depth of infiltration. Preoperative sentinel lymph node biopsy should be performed to consider whether to further clean the axillary lymph nodes. Chemotherapy is a common method for treating breast cancer. Patients with invasive breast cancer with axillary lymph node metastasis must undergo adjuvant chemotherapy. Endocrine therapy and targeted therapy are also common means of treating breast cancer, and should be selected according to specific clinical conditions.