If you're in early 50's,can breast cancer develop in less than a year?Why ?

Answer 1

Breast cancer doesn't keep a schedule.

Generally, if detected early, it can be treated successfully.

This is why monthly self-examination is recommended. If you detect it within a month of the tumour forming, you have an excellent prognosis.

Annual mammagrams are recommended for women over 50. There are a few reasons for this.

Women over 50 are statistically more likely to develope breast cancer, with age being the biggest risk factor.

Women over 50 have less dense breast tissue, which makes mammograms more accurate, than younger women.

A tumour detected within a year of development and treated will still have an excellent prognosis.

Mammograms are a form of x-ray, and if used in excess can cause health issues in themselves, so annual mammograms are a balance between close monitoring without doing harm.

Answer 2

Depends upon the grade of the tumor cells. If you have a low grade tumor (the cells look almost normal under a microscope) than the cancer may grow slower. If you have a high grade tumor (cells look very abnormal under a microscope) than the disease grows faster.

We are dealing with a high grade aggressive cancer that has the ability to grow and double within 28 days. It is all we can manage to stay in front of the growth. So, yes breast cancer can develop not only less than a year but possibly within a month depending on the type of malignancy you have (there are several different types of breast cancer and some are more aggressive than others).

NCI: Tumor Grades explained
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Detection/tumor-grade

Age rarely has anything to do with how fast a tumor or cancer develops. Young or old can have slow growing or fast growing tumors depending entirely on the type of cancer, the stage, and grade of tumor.

Answer 3

Breast cancer can develop quickly at any age. How quickly it grows depends on the type of cancerous cells and how aggressive it is.
Young women can get breast cancer just as fast, but it is rarer. Just by my own assumption, I think this is due to the fact that the older you are, the more chemicals and toxins you have been exposed to, but it could certainly also have to do with breast tissue changes over time, and changing hormones.
It's important for every woman to do breast self-exams and for women over 40 to get a mammogram every year to check for any suspicious growths.

Answer 4

Yes. If it took a year we wouldn't need those yearly mammograms.

Why? Well why not? Why would cancer need longer to develop?