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Young breast cancer survivors at higher risk of tumour later in life

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Sunday May 5 2024

Young women who have survived breast cancer are significantly more likely to get cancer for a second time later in life, researchers have said.

A study by the University of Cambridge, which looked at almost 600,000 breast cancer survivors, showed that they are at much higher risk of developing an entirely new cancer elsewhere in the body when compared with the general population.

The risk was highest among women who were first diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50 — and who were 86 per cent more likely to develop another cancer than other women of the same age who had not had breast cancer. Women initially diagnosed over the age of 50 were 17 per cent more likely to develop a second

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