Who Is Most Likely to Get Triple-Negative Breast Cancer?

In an extensive survey of more than a million cases of breast cancer diagnosed between 2010 and 2014, researchers have reaffirmed that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is most likely to affect black and Hispanic women and women younger than 40. This is nothing new, but the large number of the group studied gives significant support to previous research. According to the study, published in the journal Cancer, 8.4 percent of all cases were triple-negative, a smaller number than in previous research that showed that 10-20 percent of all breast cancer cases were TNBC. READ MORE