According to whom? There are so few cases (25 cases a year for 19yr old and younger) that such a declaration seems BS to me. Is it unreasonable that doctors will assume that its not breast cancer and must be something else, of course not!

 "10 year old girls should have to start learning about breast cancer and how to detect it. I love how you're arguing against that as if it's a bad thing."

 It IS a bad thing IMHO. Children need to be protected from leeebral over reactions along with the rest of us. It would be smarter to promote good health, regular checkups, and to promote proper ways children could talk to doctors so they can do their jobs better. Promoting this idea that children need to self breast examinations to detect breast cancer is way over the top if you consider the actual risk of breast cancer in children.

"There is no damn fear mongering here. This isn't a political issue. Awareness is better ignorance."

Absolutely, information is ALWAYS a good thing, but it has to be realistic and not misleading. I think this story has two things going on, its a sad story of an unlucky little girl, but its unfortunately married to another point that its not compatible with the OG story. Those statistics and list of issues related to youth and breast cancer is somewhat misleading and IMO is fear mongering a bit when its placed next to a 10years old girl's tragedy. Many will look at those dire stats and conclude that their children is in much more danger than actually are.

 I'm reminded of one of my fav shows, ... Bullshit! They did an episode on "stranger danger" that I found very interesting. Its about how counter productive we can be if we focus on the wrong thing. 95% of molestations and abductions happen from people we know, yet almost 100% of our attention & efforts goes into keeping strangers away from kids. Its counter productive.

Here are those stats from BS! and I included breast cancer for children:

School age child dying
1 in 3000
Traffic Accident
1 in 8000
Homicide Away From School
1 in 21,000
Cancers (not including breast)
1 in 33,000
Accidental Drowning
1 in 73,000
Heart Disease
1 in 79,000
A Firearm Accident
1 in 200,000
Pneumonia or Influenza
1 in 250,000
Bronchitis, Emphysema or Asma
1 in 260,000
Cerebro-vascular Disease
1 in 390,000
Accidental Fall
1 in 390,000
HIV
1 in 420,000
Act of God like Lightning
1 in 780,000
Diabetes
1 in 850,000
Meningitis
1 in 1,300,000
Adverse effect to medical care
1 in 1,300,000
Abducted and Murdered
1 in 1,500,000
Homicide at School
1 in 1,700,000
Breast Cancer in a child 15-19
1 in 4,000,000
Breast Cancer in a child 10-14
1 in 16,300,000

 From what I've seen, women 20-25 is also very unlikely to get breast cancer. Chances get exponentially greater from 30+. In fact 91% of "11,000 young diagnosed every year" is over the age of 30, 7.6% is from 25-30.