{"id":378097,"date":"2026-10-20T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378097\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:46:20","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-young-women-can-get-breast-cancer-too-making-early-awareness-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378097\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Young Women Can Get Breast Cancer Too Making Early Awareness Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As Breast Cancer Awareness Month continues, doctors are encouraging younger women to understand their risk and pay attention to changes in their bodies.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Breast Cancer Research Foundation says women under 40 account for about 4% to 11% of breast cancer cases in the United States. Experts also say younger patients are more likely to have genetic risk factors for the disease.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I certainly think you should be breast aware. It is really very important, just knowing what your normal is,&#8221; said Dr. Yael Zack of White Plains Hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Zack says women should talk to their medical provider if they notice a persistent change that lasts beyond a menstrual cycle.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;If you notice a persistent change that is staying past your menstrual cycle, that would be important to bring up with your medical provider,&#8221; Zack said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Breast Cancer Awareness Month continues, doctors are encouraging younger women to understand their risk and pay attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-378097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}