Compared with the median age of breast cancer onset in western countries at 62-64 years, the median age in China is around 16 years earlier. There are nearly fifty thousand new breast cancer patients younger than 40 years in China every year. The tumor characteristics, diagnosis and treatment methods, and psychosocial needs of these young patients are often different from elder breast cancer patients. Currently, the international clinical guidelines for young breast cancer are mainly formulated by western countries, which often do not address the unique clinical needs from young breast cancer patients in China. There are many questions and problems in the diagnosis and treatment of young breast cancer in China that do not have standard answer and are urgently in need of expert consensus to guide clinical decision-making.
相比于西方国家62~64岁的乳腺癌中位发病年龄，我国乳腺癌中位发病年龄提前了10多年。每年我国有近5万例新增的年龄<40岁的乳腺癌患者，而这类患者的肿瘤特征、诊治方式以及心理社会需求往往不同于年长的乳腺癌患者。目前国际上通用的年轻乳腺癌的临床指南主要由西方国家主导，其年轻乳腺癌关注的重点并不能满足我国年轻乳腺癌患者特有的临床诊治需求。中国年轻乳腺癌的诊治过程中的许多特色问题并没有标准答案，亟需专家制定相关共识来指导临床决策。现就我国年轻乳腺癌诊治中有关易感基因、化疗、内分泌治疗等若干问题思考如下。.