Yeah, Getting Breast Cancer When You're Young Does Suck

But as someone with the inside track on this one, I don't think being selective about who gets chemo is going to solve the problem, as this article suggests.

Finding a cure, though, that might help. 

You see, if you get cancer before you're 50, it's most likely an advanced and fast-growing cancer that will require the most aggressive chemo treatment and everything else modern medicine has in its toolbox.

Treatment lite is rarely an option for this population.

And if by better personalized adjuvant therapy they mean adding a yoga class, that also isn't going to cut it.

A cure? Now we're talking.

This article gets it right when it reports that many, many studies about breast cancer in young women indicate that the experience especially sucks for them. Breast cancer treatment does destroy fertility, cause weight gain and can push women into immediate, premature menopause.

It's hard to argue that any one of those is not hell to deal with.

Recognizing this is good. Let's not play around about the answer though.

There's only one--Cure, cure, cure, cure, cure, cure, cure, cure, cure, cure.

NOW.