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  • kimbly
    kimbly Member Posts: 398
    edited August 2008

    Diagnosed November 2007 at 46 years old.  I will be 47 tomorrow.  Found during a routine mammogram.  I had skipped a few years but had a screening at age 35 and then two mammos at ate 40 and then 41.  Nothing was seen on those films. 

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  • irishdreama
    irishdreama Member Posts: 938
    edited August 2008

    I felt the lump under my arm 2 days after my 45th birthday in Nov. 2006, and knew right away it was a lymph node and I was in trouble. I decided to wait until after the holidays, which were especially difficult this year, as my dad had died on Thanksgiving the previous year from Bladder cancer. However, my best friend insisted I make an appt. with my doc. He felt the lumps, and the lymph nodes and sent me down for a mammogram and an ultrasound and scheduled me to see a surgeon the following day. I was actually dx on Dec. 22, 2006.

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  • MissUniverse
    MissUniverse Member Posts: 75
    edited August 2008

    I was dx'd on 4/10/08, a month before my 48th b-day. I found the intial "suspicious mass" during a self-exam just before my cycle started in March.  I had never had a mammogram before because I wasn't high risk, no family history and never felt anything during  my monthly self-exams.  Turns out that my breast tissue is so dense "you can hide a mack truck in them" per my surgeon and my onco. After a FNA and core biopsies it turned out that there were actually 4 masses - 2 nodes and 2 tumors.  Had a left side mastectomy and axillary node removal 5/29/08  (18 nodes removed, 2 positive) and am currently on DD A/C and Taxol (just finished the A/C yesterday).

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  • Chuck
    Chuck Member Posts: 16
    edited August 2008

    30. 30! Nurse-midwife felt it in right breast.

     All of our onc's praised her ("send her a case of whiskey"). But we've already sent flowers...

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  • BustersMom
    BustersMom Member Posts: 495
    edited August 2008

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    Had my baseline mammo just 6 months prior (at 41 & was told it was normal)..... found lump myself in May 08.

    No family history for me.

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  • Genia
    Genia Member Posts: 1,335
    edited August 2008

    I was/am 48. 

    There was no family history of breast cancer for me either! 

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  • dk721
    dk721 Member Posts: 18
    edited August 2008

    I am 40....no family history.  Had my baseline mammo in May which showed calcifications.  No lump ever felt (by radiologist who did the mammo or the surgeon who did the biopsy)

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  • Deedee79
    Deedee79 Member Posts: 52
    edited August 2008

    I think I'm the oldie. I'm 78, will be 79 in October. Had a lupectomy on the 23 of July. Had 19 lymph nodes removed. I have HER2. Will have chemo, radiation, and Herception. Will wear a port for a year. It's a bummer, but the onc says I'm otherwise healthy and I have a strong heart. Hugs to all, Dee

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  • KarrieL98
    KarrieL98 Member Posts: 5
    edited August 2008

    30yrs.

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  • towens88
    towens88 Member Posts: 26
    edited August 2008

    I am 31 and was diagnosed in April 2008.  I am currently getting chemo and radiation in October.

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  • CAZ
    CAZ Member Posts: 678
    edited August 2008

    Biopsy was done on my 44th birthday.

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  • Wink
    Wink Member Posts: 722
    edited September 2008

    Turned 50 in May 2008; found lump early in July; Mammo & ultrasound mid-July; had biopsy July 24th, diagnosed July 25th.  Bi-lateral mast Aug 18, first visit with OC tomorrow. Lump was apparently missed on 2007 mammogram.

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  • Shirlann
    Shirlann Member Posts: 3,302
    edited September 2008

    Hi all, I was 63, I am 73 now.  63 is the age most women are diagnosed, but you would not ever know that, so many women of that age or older are not on the net.  But that is the statistic.  Golly, there must be thousands out there without us!  Yikes, what a nightmare.  I could not have survived without my sisters.

    I helped as a "breast buddy" for a local hospital for a couple of years, and none of the women I got to know had any computer skills, so it is a problem.

    Hugs, Shirlann

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  • HeatherBLocklear
    HeatherBLocklear Member Posts: 1,370
    edited September 2008

    I was 60, even though nobody would think I was a second over 29. Today, six months later, I look even younger. Cool

    Annie Camel Grin

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  • 1penny
    1penny Member Posts: 87
    edited September 2008

    I am 34 no family history of any type of cancer

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited September 2008
    upSmile
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  • Mofire49
    Mofire49 Member Posts: 2
    edited September 2008

    I was a month away from 40 with a 17 month old!

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  • lilith
    lilith Member Posts: 543
    edited September 2008

    43 yrs old at dx. I am turning 45 tomorrow, so far, so good.

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  • monee
    monee Member Posts: 91
    edited September 2008

    41 first time left, 50 second time right.

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  • w-jade
    w-jade Member Posts: 9
    edited September 2008

    Diagnosed at 37 with Stage IIIa IDC.

    Just turned 38

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  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 6,416
    edited September 2008

    40 for me. Still 40... :)

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  • beastybabe
    beastybabe Member Posts: 196
    edited September 2008

    I found a lump on my right breast a day before my 38th birthday, on the following day my doc confirmed the lumps and on the 28th December 2007 I was offically diagnosed with breast cancer.

    My 39th Birthday is coming up in December and so far Ive had no new cancer.

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  • 2young4this
    2young4this Member Posts: 5
    edited September 2008

    31....with a 3 year old and 13 month old....good times these are - have my last dose of A/C this Friday!!! YAY!

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited September 2008

    up

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  • hopefullady
    hopefullady Member Posts: 210
    edited September 2008

    It was about a month before my 51st birthday.   Undergoing chemo now, and hoping for decent hair by my 52nd birthday next June.

    Chris 

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  • BBLady
    BBLady Member Posts: 114
    edited September 2008

    I was dx two days after my 52 birthday.  Lump with calcifications was found on routine mammo.  Have been very faithful to have one done every year since 40.  Just finished chemo about a month ago and I'm starting to feel more like normal.

    Kathy

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  • hostanut
    hostanut Member Posts: 178
    edited October 2008

      I was within weeks of turning 58 when I was diagnosed, and turned 60 this year.  No family history, however I have a paternal aunt who was 90 when diagnosed, and she just celebrated her 99th birthday in June!!!  You are NEVER too old for a mammogram, no matter what some of those doctors tell you (especially the elderly)!!!   I can't stress that enough to some of my pts. (I'm a home care RN).       Nancy

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  • kathimdgd
    kathimdgd Member Posts: 268
    edited October 2008

    WOW sooooooooooo many of you are so young,and to think that they used to say you didn't even need a mammo before turning 40.Guess that went down the tubes!!!  I was diagnosed this august and i had just had my 70th b'day in March.What a shock it was,in a way.Then again i have sisters that were all diagnosed late in life as well.One was 70 and she turned 82 this year.One was 65 and she turned 77 ths year and one was 51,and she lived to be 68,but she didn't die from the cancer,she died from a DR'S mistake during another unrelated surgery.

    My dad's mom had BC in 1929 had a mastectomy and only radiation and lived to be 94.

    Kathi

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  • Lucy47
    Lucy47 Member Posts: 183
    edited October 2008

    I was 47 years old when I was dx....Had my first mammogram at 46 yrs which came back normal. The following year I found the lump myself.....

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  • strongmom37
    strongmom37 Member Posts: 36
    edited October 2008

    Just dx on 8/29/08 at 37. Sister was dx at 44 but hers was found much earlier, DCIS. Mine unfourtunately was much farther along. Will start chemo next week and then rads. Just found out I am BRCA2 ++. Long family history of various cancers. I have 2 toddlers who keep me going and make me smile and laugh everyday!

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