Young Women's Initiative

Discover statistics to answer some of the most common questions and to present a general picture of what breast cancer in the U.S. looks like today.

Eat Beyond is a free 5-week interactive texting program that provides access to information about breast cancer and nutrition.

Living Beyond Breast Cancer joins Bring Your Brave campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer risk in young women of color, and how to face it and lower it.

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If you are premenopausal or perimenopausal, breast cancer treatments may cause your menstrual periods to stop for a while or, in some cases, permanently.

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If you’re a woman diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 45, your medical and emotional concerns may be very different than those of women who are diagnosed when they are older.

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Ovarian suppression is surgery, radiation therapy or medicine that is used in premenopausal women to stop the ovaries from working.

The gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists, or GnRH agonists, are a class of injectable medicines offered to pre- and perimenopausal women with breast cancer in order to temporarily suppress, or slow, ovarian function.

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You might not be thinking about having a family at the time of your diagnosis, but that’s the best time to talk with your partner, family, and healthcare team about future fertility.

If you are premenopausal (still having menstrual periods), breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and hormonal therapy can affect your fertility. This may make it harder to become pregnant after treatment ends.

Women affected by breast cancer may be premenopausal or perimenopausal before diagnosis. Learn more about early menopause, and other ways that you may be affected.