Breast Cancer Rates Climb Among Younger Women

1/16/2025
By Nina Agrawal

Siobhan Donovan was a runner who ate her vegetables, didn’t smoke and drank only socially. She had no family history of cancer. So when she experienced some swelling in her breast near the end of what she called “a textbook-easy pregnancy” with her third child, she and her doctors expected nothing serious.

They were wrong. Ms. Donovan, who was 33 at the time, had metastatic breast cancer that had spread to her bones.
“I was really just in shock,” she said, adding that back then she didn’t even know the meaning of the word “metastasis.”
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