Perspective | I'm in my early 20s. Why do I have breast cancer?

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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October. I was 23.

My first question was: Why? I thought people my age didn't get breast cancer. I don't have a family history of the disease. My tests for the BRCA gene mutations, which increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, came back negative.