6-Year-Old Girl In Kelantan Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

KOTA BARU: the Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II (HRPZII) here has detected breast cancer in a six-year-old girl.

HRPZ Breast and Endocrine consultant surgeon and department head Dr Imi Sairi Ab Hadi said the patient from Pantai Cahaya Bulan in Kota Baru was diagnosed with a lump measuring two centimetres on her breast in October last year.

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"An operation was done to remove the lump and she is now required to receive treatment every month.
"Nevertheless we believe it can be treated as it is still at the first stage and possibly due to a genetic factor," he told reporters in Kota Baru today.

He said breast cancer was the leading cause of death for women in Malaysia, but in Kelantan breast cancer based on both genders, is the second most fatal after colon cancer.

Dr Imi Sairi said there were 2,262 cancer cases in HRPZ's records, with breast cancer numbering the highest at 593, followed by colon cancer (262), ovarian cancer (183) and other cancers such as thyroid, cervical and leukemia.

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Breast cancer is rare in young girls because there is little tissue in the area and it is unaffected by female sex hormones.
The risk increases at puberty after breast tissue starts growing, although the disease normally affects women aged 30 and over.

Many women assume they are too young to get breast cancer and tend to assume a lump is a harmless cyst or other growth. Some health care providers also dismiss breast lumps in young women as cysts and adopt a "wait and see" approach.

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"Breast cancer can also afflict men but most male patients here either suffer from colon cancer or prostate cancer," he said. He said almost 50% of cancer patients in the state only sought treatment at the hospital after the disease had turned chronic, at stage three and stage four.

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2011: A three-year-old girl has made a full recovery from breast cancer after becoming the youngest person ever to be diagnosed with the disease. Aleisha Hunter, from Toronto, Canada, needed a mastectomy after doctors discovered the cause of a lump which appeared on her chest in December 2008 when she was two.

However she is now clear of the disease - and now aged four, has been speaking about what happened to her.
'I know I had cancer in my booby and that the doctors made it better,' she said. 'I know that cancer can make some people go to heaven, but I am better now.

Doctors have said the cancer is unlikely to return, but she faces regular check-ups for the next few years, and reconstructive breast surgery when she is a teenager.