Fascinating reason why breast cancer returns decades after it's 'cured'...as deaths in young women with the illness soar

EXCLUSIVE Fascinating reason why breast cancer returns decades after it's 'cured'...

as deaths in young women with the illness soar READ MORE: Breast cancer screening age officially lowered from 50 to 40 By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 17:33 EDT, 18 June 2024 | Updated: 17:35 EDT, 18 June 2024 e-mail View comments As cancer rates soar among young people, experts all over the world are launching major investigations in an attempt to discover what's behind the rise. But there's another cancer question that is equally puzzling: why do some types of cancer continue to come back? If five years have passed and there is no sign of cancer, patients are usually considered cured — as few see their disease return.

But with some types of breast cancer, as many as a quarter of women will be diagnosed with the disease again, sometimes decades in the future . Now, medical experts across the globe are hunting for the reasons why. Dr Francisco Contreras, director and president of Oasis of Hope Hospital in Mexico , told DailyMail.

com: 'The thorn on the side of oncology is the recurrence of cancer after successful treatment.' 'This problem varies widely depending on types of cancer and stage, how aggressive the malignancy is, and the type of therapy given.' On average, breast cancer recurs anywhere from three to 25 percent of the time.

Experts believe young, obese women are most at risk, as well as those with more aggressive types Breast cancer deaths have slowly de.