At the Research Center of the Hospital Center of University of Montreal (CHUM), in Montreal, the concerns of Dr.Letarte find echo in the Dre Saima Hassan, oncologist surgeon and breast cancer specialist. She also noticed that the number of her young patients in their twenties, thirties or forties is increasing. In the last year, the phenomenon particularly hit, her and her team. « Honestly, it scares us. »

In a Canadian study published last April, researchers estimated that breast cancer cases in their twenties increased by 45%. « It is a lot », says the Dre Hassan.

“There is something that we don’t understand well enough.”

-Dre Saima Hassan, oncologist surgeon and breast cancer specialist at CHUM