The agony of getting breast cancer when in your prime

Until recently, scientists believed that breast cancer was a thing for aging women. Several studies in the field have proved that women cannot get the cancer in before they hit midlife. In fact, breast cancer is widely included among the diseases associated with midlife crisis among women. But the case of Sylvia Mukazaire is just one among many recent developments in which young women are increasingly being diagnosed with breast cancer.Mukazaire was diagnosed with breast cancer in June. According to Dr Leonard Kayonde, the director of cancer diseases at Rwanda Biomedical Centre, it is no longer a strange phenomenon for a young woman of 20 to be diagnosed with breast cancer. In an interview with Healthy Times, she pours her heart out. And it is a tale of suffering in the face of, first, the tragic moment in the country’s history when her relatives were wiped out, and now the disease.