Would you mind sharing your age at time of diagnosis?

naiviv

52 with no signs of menopause and no family history of any cancer.

3boysmom39

Lucky 38...

snorkeler

41...found the lump on my birthday

Nancyinct

52.... was diagnosed on my birthday...

wenweb

It is interesting that quite a few here were DX'd close to their B-days. I did intentionally schedule my yearly mammograms in my B-day month to make it easy to remember. Since my actual diagnosis came 2 months later, that schedule is shot to hell

peggy_j

In case anyone's curious, this page details the risk of being Dx'd at a specific age. (there's more info on the website, including a link to a table with the risk by age and race)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/probability-breast-cancer

(excerpt):

• Based on current breast cancer incidence rates, experts estimate that about one out of every eight women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time during her life.
• The strongest risk factor for breast cancer is age. A woman’s risk of developing this disease increases as she gets older.
• Other factors can also increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, including inherited changes in certain genes, a personal or family history of breast cancer, having dense breasts, beginning to menstruate before age 12, starting menopause after age 55, having a first full-term pregnancy after age 30, never having been pregnant, obesity after menopause, and alcohol use.

...

According to the current report, the risk that a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer during the next 10 years, starting at the following ages, is as follows:

• Age 30 . . . . . . 0.44 percent (or 1 in 227)
• Age 40 . . . . . . 1.47 percent (or 1 in 68)
• Age 50 . . . . . . 2.38 percent (or 1 in 42)
• Age 60 . . . . . . 3.56 percent (or 1 in 28)
• Age 70 . . . . . . 3.82 percent (or 1 in 26)

Goldie8469

44

chemochar

I was 61. Had no idea I had breast cancer--the mammo found it 2 months before my 62nd birthday. Had my mastectomy 5 days before my birthday. Now my birthdays are a blessing and I'm gad to be alive!! My mom was diagnosed at age 79--she died s a result of car accident.

pegs54

58 diagnosed with DCIS

JuanitaB

diagnosed 1 week before my 54th birthday. I went through menopause at 40, was on HRT for 7 years. My mom passed from untreated breast cancer when she was 73, 20 years prior to my own dx.

SchoolCounselor

42 with ADH , 44 with breast cancer. No family history, premenopausal.

Timbuktu

61. I'm surprised by how young everyone was at diagnosis.

mommy13

Found lump on my 27th birthday. Diagnosed month 1/2 later. Unsure of staging yet (hoping only 2 or 3 at the most.)

JaneB1

had just turned 53

L2girl

47. Both breasts.

rosecal954

58.

mainemom_pumpkin

51

julieho

Age 53. June 2012.

FilterLady

I was 55....no history of breast cancer in my family.

Fephna

41. My mom had bc at 35 and again at 42.

Swimmom2

45, 2 months shy of 46, which allowed my insurance to cover braca!!

Annie54

I am 59...diagnosed this year. Doctor told me the average age for BC dx is 61.

Locs4me

52. DCIS on the left 1.2 cm, IDC on the right 1 cm. grade 2 Waiting for oncotype and HER, 0/5 nodes.

Fallleaves

48. My mom is twenty years older and hasn't had BC (we think. she has had a lump in one of her breasts for 16 years, but it has stayed the same the entire time so she never did anything about it.) Also, had an aunt who got it at 69 and died of it at 76.

Mommy13, that has got to be the world's worst birthday present! Good luck with your diagnosis.

beckstar18

31, ten days before my 32nd bday. I also had melanoma at the age of 20 (never tanned).

Rose12

54- (mamogram)birthday came 2 months later along with surgery. No history of breast cancer. I also heard common in 50.s and 60.s.

miso

32 first time and 43 second time (came back in exact same place 11 years later.)

SeasideMemories

I was one month shy of my 47th birthday. So 46!

babs6287

I was diagnosed 8 days after my 63rd birthday!

Babs1

bluepearl

First one, age 60 and second one age 62. No history.