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Can teenage girls develop breast cancer?
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Very rare: The best data i could find was an incidence rate of 0.03 per 100, 000 people in 2003 for malignant breast carcinoma in those under the age of 19. This roughly translates into about 100 new cases in the United States per year.
Answered 9/28/2016
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