Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’

I share the experience I had in accompanying a 40-year-old girl to her annual review with the gynaecologist, when the gale told her that the exam showed the result of breast cancer.Shut up Mary Luz (fictional name to take care of her identity), went down the elevator and said to me on the ground floor with her face looking at the floor: What will I do now?The doctors just told me that I have cancer.What am I going to do?I have children, a job, a…

Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’

A Montreal woman who was told by health-care professionals that she was too young for breast cancer but later diagnosed with it, has died from the disease. Valerie Buchanan was 32 when she died at the end of February.

Inspired by a European model, the first Rose House in North America opened its doors on Thursday in Montreal. It is a place to soften the daily lives of women with breast cancer before, during and after this event.