heya Mariam, how likley is it that a child of our age (12-13) would get breast cancer?

Question: heya Mariam, how likley is it that a child of our age (12-13) would get breast cancer?

Asked by mildredmad to Mariam on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research.
- Mariam Orme answered on 20 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi mildredmad, thanks for the question.
  
  It’s pretty unlikely that a child of your age group will develop any sort of cancer: only about 1 in every 500 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with cancer. Interestingly, for some reason childhood cancer is a bit more common in boys than in girls.
  
  Anyway, I’m getting off the subject a bit. For breast cancer, I can’t give you numbers but it’s incredibly unlikely that you would get breast cancer so young. It is possible, but it happens extremely rarely.

Question: heya Mariam, how likley is it that a child of our age (12-13) would get breast cancer?