Sign the Petition Against the new Mammography Guidelines

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Welcome the Petition!

It is a unique place to not only add your name, but tell your story in brief.

However, to add a Post to this petition, You will need to Register with the Community if you aren't already. Below are the directions to register. If this is too difficult though, please send your name to petition@breastcancer.org.

To Register, please click on "Register" at the top right-hand of this page (in the pink). You will need to provide a "User Name", a valid Email Address, and a Password. You will have an email verification sent to you immediately upon registering, and you may then post.

To add a Post (Signature) to the Petition, click the “Add a Post” link on the right hand side of any of the posts in this Petition. Then add your name and age of diagnosis, and story if you would like in the " Post a Reply" box that will be provided once you have clicked on this. Once you've added your name and/or story, you will then need to push "submit" and you are done!  

Thanks for going through this process. Your name and information WILL make a difference, and you can come back and post again in the discussion boards any time with your new Community Membership.

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The Breastcancer.org Team

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cmharris59

Connie Harris << 48 y/o at dx - no family history

*edited to add age of dx

hipchik47

Barbara Mcmanus

djd

Donna Dailey

(on behalf of myself, who was diagnosed at age 39, and for my sisters KariLynn and TheresaPW who were early 40's when they died of BC)

konakat

Elizabeth B. -- dx age 45. (Found lump myself) Now 47, Stage IV and fighting hard.  Mourning the many women who are no longer with us.

OG56

Linda Karschner (early detection of IDC mamogram)

Morgan513

Lorrie Morgan-Age 48

golfer779

Carol Salo ... diagnosed 44

septembersong

Ann Beaton

Jean09

Pam Mulvaney - Age 47

nene2059

jennifer o-age 37..found my own lump with BSE at age 36. Digital mammogram confirmed. MRI found another in other breast.  We need routine screenings early! Was not at high risk for BC.

cheers247

Jessica Moore, age 34 -- No family history!

AlohaGirl

Heather White (diagnosed with DCIS as a result of mammogram at age 40).  Edited to add no family history.

Anonymous

Phyllis Archibald (on behalf of African American women who have a higher BC mortality rate because of late detection)

-angel-

Charlene Glassmyer, dx'd at age 42 while breast-feeding (Mammo confirmed lump that I just knew was cancer)  ~

 in honor of my friend lv2cmp, dx'd at 36 and died last month at only 41

CoolBreeze

Ann Silberman  

(cancer found at 50, doctor thinks it had been growing many years, since early 40s.  I myself didn't get mammograms and now have many years of treatment ahead of me, at increased cost to the insurance co)

KellyC

Kelly Covello - 36, no prior mammo, felt a lump......Age 41 now, Stage IV

Annie62

Anne Marie Flynn, diagnosed at age 41 Stage IIIC. I was told my cancer wouldn not have been large enough to be felt  for 7-8 years. It was already in 11 nodes. I am now 5 years out and NED.

vtmom

Amy Mattinat

Diagnosed with DCIS as a result of my 1st mammogram at age 50 following a previous benign lump. I call it my "lucky lump".

sta1129

Stacie Fidlar, diagnosed at 38 with a mammogram (follow-up to a previous benign lump).

Moderators

this is powerful! Keep it going!!

cmb35

Colleen Creamer, dx at age 41, felt a tiny lump, which was not visible on baseline (age 40) mamm, aggressive triple negative cancer had already spread to my lymph nodes, now age 46 and NED

NJLinda

Linda L. Goldberg

Makratz

Linda K      DX 41  found lump 1 month after mamo.  No family history.

Moderators

Feel free to add age of diagnosis !

sheila888

Sheila P.  DX age 53.

AnnNYC

AnnNYC, diagnosed at age 54 -- lump discovered through breast self exam was never visible on mammogram.  Multiple screening modalities are needed, for women of all ages.

deborye

Deborah M. Ryer, diagnosed at 54, lumps could not be felt, mammo at 53 showed nothing.  Found IDC and DCIS. Digital mammogram saved my life!!!!

Mother diagnosed at age 58, died at age 64. 

thepinkbirdie

Marie Hebert, diagnosed with IDC at age 43 as a result of mammogram.  An MRI found a pre-cancerous lump in the same breast.  Left mastectomy performed in August, 2009.

Wren

Karen Loomis *If it weren't for a routine screening at age 45... I don't know if I'd still be here two years later to sign this petition. Please don't change the screening guidelines.

MAMAQ

Joanne M - dx .age 40 (found on a mammogram)  microscopic and already in lymphs.  10 more years would have probably been too late.