Cancer World Newsletter - The biology of breast cancer in young women in unique - a debate

Are the breast cancers that strike younger women biologically different to those that appear at a later age? This Focus article presents a debate between two experts which took place at ESO's conference on Breast Cancer In Young Women, Dublin November 2012, to try to understand more about why younger women with breast cancer tend to have a poorer prognosis than their older counterparts. What do you think? Is the poorer prognosis in younger women most likely to indicate a unique biology Or is just that the more aggressive phenotypes -- HER2-enriched, basal-like, triple-negative -- are more common among younger women with breast cancer?  You can read the article here. Press the comment button at the end and share your views.