How old were you?

Tigwin

I am 48 diagnosed on my 48th birthday.  Happy Birthday to me !!

Going through chemo now and mastectomy in the fall.

Stay well all!!

swimangel72

I am 53 - was just diagnosed this past February - had skipped my mammo's for 3 years while going through menopause and a move.

drcrisc

Hi Swimangel,

I was (am!) 40 - will be 41 next month.  My first mammo was for this.  Yee-haw!

twingle99

I was 39 when dx. Turned 40 sitting in a chemo chair. Never would have thought that!!! 42 now!!!!

lilwebb

42, diagnosed 2months ago, and still can't believe it! Luckily, all three of my sisters have had negative mamograms since then. I also had no idea how common this is.

VBG

I was 46 when I was first DX with ILC in June '06; lumpectomy, rads and tamox. I was 47 when the second DX of ILC was discovered.  Bi lat w/recon scheduled for 4/29 also oopherectomy so I can start AIs.

Maire67

I was 56.  That was almost three years ago. Mammo's since I was 40, two lumpectomies at that time..benign. Ultrasounds since I was 49.  Still missed it. 

smehalick

51 Dx 1/3/08

flfish

Wow, I am amazed at how many are under the age of 40.  I went for my first mammo at the age of 40 and found bc.  Well, better to find it earlier than later I suppose.  With all these young woman being diagnosed, it looks like the push for early detection is working!!

eak2863

I was diagnosed on February 27, 2008 1 day before my 45th Birthday. I will never forget this year. When my friends and relatives wished me a happy BDay, I cried non-stop coverring the phone speaker. I want to be 1 year older. Can't wait to put this 'experience' behind me. Good luck to us all. Best wishes and a quick recovery.

NM60459

35 when diagnosed just last month.  I think we are just catching it earlier with technology.  Things are so different now then they were even 5 years ago!!!  We are so lucky that medicine has come so far!!!

Becky--IL

Hello everyone,

I am new here and first post.  I just turned 50 in January and got my diagnosis March 5.  I had a lumpectomy with lymphnodes removed on April 16th. I have my first appt. with an oncologist May 8 to discuss chemo treatments and also will need to do radiation treatments. 

tawyna1

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sofeemay

I was dx. at 27 with triple neg. Had chemo, mastectomy and rads. Few weeks back I found out that I have lung mets. Start chemo on monday. No cancer history in my family. cancer sucks

I'm 29 now. My birthday was a few weeks back. I had to celebrate in the hospital

Vinogal

I'm 36.....diagnosed a month ago......found the lump myself....and then the flurry of test like everyone else......had lumpectomy and what was supposed to be SNB......yesterday.....but as nodes were positive went straight on to full disection......hoping for clear margins so I can move onto chemo and rad and get this behind me.....No family history for me either.....and you're right cancer does suck!

Jax

tawyna1

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pip57

My mom was 65.



I was 49.

LUVmy2girlZ

I am 39...

just one year shy of the "mammogram at age 40"  I had a baseline at the recommended age of 35 but reading these posts...and listening to my Dr. trying to change the insurance indust. on age of mamo's should be earlier.

tawyna1

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Jule

36 with 2 kids - 4 and 6

alca1229

32

It has been a long process, for me because of my "young age", but I am recovering from my second re-excision and will start rads later this month.

tthowie

I was and am 40. I was actually diagnosed 4 days after my 40th b-day!

BMac

Ovarian - 49

Breast - 54....Mammos since age 40, MRI's since age 51, followed at a High Risk Breast cancer clinic since age 51; still got it.

Now 55.

jerseymaria

i too was 61 when dx in 2006.  like swimangle i had skipped mammos for 4 years due to moving, hubs severe med. problems as well as my own struggles with lupus pain.  although my bs told me it had not been there long because it was so agressive, i'm sure if i had reg. mammos it would have been caught earlier and perhaps i would not be stage IV now.  can't change the past so no sense dwelling on that.  i like many others must focus on the future and the new treatments that are coming about all the time.

mbpetit

I was 38 when dx.  The day before my daughter's 5th Birthday...a day I will never forget!

  

I am 39 now (Happy B-day on June 5th)....hoping to be here many more years!!!! 

LibraGirl

I found the lump when I was 43 but it took almost a whole year until I got the diagnosis at 44.

deborye

I am 56, dx at 55.  It was found on digital mammogram. IDC 6mm and DCIS 7mm.  They could not see anything on my previous mammogram.

KKing

Just diagnosed in April.. I am 45 and by the end of treatment will be 46.  Found the lump myself.

Justlin

I was dx at 51, found " something odd" on the routine mammogram. (Actually looks like someone just shook a salt shaker over the eft breast!)

mmcmom

I was 39, found the lump myself.  I had not yet had a mammogram because I wasn't 40 yet.