Can Breast cancer diagnosis in pregnancy rise. Breast cancer diagnosis in pregnancy to rise - say a research.
As women wait longer to have their first baby, researchers find more are spotting the disease while pregnant or breastfeeding.
One in ten younger women who develop breast cancer first spot signs when they are pregnant or breastfeeding, according to new research.
The number of under-45s diagnosed with breast cancer is on the rise, with 5,600 cases a year, latest figures show.
The chance of breast cancer rises with age.
Experts said the number of women delaying motherhood means the number diagnosed while pregnant or breastfeeding is set to rise.
The average age of new mothers is now 30.2, around four years higher than in the 1970s.
New research from Breast Cancer Care among 496 women aged 45 and under who developed breast cancer has found one in 10 spotted signs while pregnant or breastfeeding.
More than a third of women went through treatment when their youngest child was aged five or under.
Half of those who had young children when they were diagnosed felt the biggest impact of treatment was being too ill to care for them.
The biggest fear for 66 per cent of mothers was not seeing their children grow up, according to the study, published ahead of the European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam.
Every year, around 50,000 women are diagnosed with the disease in the UK.
Over a lifetime, women have a 1 in eight chance of developing the cancer, with risks strongly related to age.
