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ive seen alot of these videos"too young to have this type of cancer" triple negative and inflammatory breast cancer is more prevelant in younger woman, reasons are unknown.

triple negatives which means they wont respond to hormonal therapy like estrogen.

once saw an episode of a show that shows rare disease, and IBC was one of them.

and doctors tend to ignore symptoms of a uncommon disease thats mean for older people, they are not used to it, unless the doctor have seen many patients with breast cancer.

It's a thing everywhere that women are routinely told "it's anxiety / depression" etc, and aren't listened to. It takes years longer for women to receive diagnosis for anything. Advocate for the women in your life. Go to doctors appointments with them. Apparently if a man goes with them, they'll, more likely be listened to, team up with someone who won't take no for an answer. It's not just the car dealerships that women face issues, it's everywhere.

An Ontario doctor killed my mother by refusing to refer her to a specialist until the pain swallowing became so great she was starving to death. It was esophageal cancer and despite a traumatic surgery, she could not be saved.

The arrogance of some doctors can be scary. I used to be a clinical genetic counselor, a job specifically designed to focus on working with doctors as a genetics specialist so that they don't need to know all the intricacies of that on top of everything else. Most doctors I worked with hated me, and saw me as a distraction from work they could handle on their own.

One time a doctor went over my head to order a genetic test for a patient who had a very strong family history of breast cancer. He didn't refer her for a genetic counseling session, which was the protocol so that we could explain to her her own risk and the potential positive result, and give her the option to make an informed choice about whether or not she wanted testing at all. He just offered her the test out of the blue and, not really knowing what it meant, she just accepted by default. Not only did she test positive for a BRCA1 mutation, increasing her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer to over 90%, but the doctor incorrectly interpreted the results of the test, and believed she tested positive for breast cancer itself.

I only learned about the patient because the doctor mentioned her nonchalantly during a review meeting, and I had to correct him about the results of the test and convince him to refer her to me. I think the only reason he agreed was because he was put on the spot in front of the whole oncology department. I was lucky that the doctor hadn't yet incorrectly reported to the patient that she had breast cancer, but I still had to inform this woman, who barely understood why she was here, that she'll likely want to start scheduling yearly mammograms right now, or even consider a mastectomy, while she was still in college. That was the most difficult day of my short time in the field, and a big reason for why I ultimately left.

What’s sad is how hard would it have been for just a single one of them to say “…but we should send you for an image just in case”

I would blame this less on doctors and more on insurance providers and hospital administrators that deny certain tests.

Testing for a cancer diagnosis is FAR more expensive when the result is positive.

She died because the healthcare system around her would like to avoid paying for the treatment of her.

The wealthy controlling class in Canada have been destroying and hindering their un8versal Healthcare system in order to move in for profit nedical care. Canada has been letting them break their system and its costing lives and money.

These people shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine.

Youth lowers the odds, yes, but that’s statistics not people. You still do the full work up if there are concerns.

I have a 22 year old friend who just got a double mastectomy because her biopsy came back positive.

Too young? When in the history of ever have diseases discriminated based on age?

I heard good things about healthcare in Canada. I come from a country that also has universal healthcare, but doctors are paid measly wages and results are what you pay for. 4-5 hours waits at emergency rooms, doctors and nurses refusing to do more than the bare minimum, or not event that, unless you give them a little "incentive", etc, etc. So actually good doctors go to practice in private clinics or other countries, where they're paid properly. I have lots of horror stories from the healthcare system in my native country.

But I thoght that Canada properly funds their healthcare system and this stuff wouldn't happen.