Sign the Petition Against the new Mammography Guidelines

Lisa B...Diagnosed with IDC at age 46. I found lump on SBE 4 months after routine mammo (nothing seen on mammo). No family history, no risk factors for BC other than being female and getting older. Mammograms in years past showed calcifications...bioipsied as benign. Even though my mammo didn't find my BC I feel the previous ones raised my awareness to check my breasts regularly. My mantra to my family and friends since my diagnosis and treatment is "know your body". If you know what is normal for you you will be able to distinguish what is abnormal.  

I am appalled at the new recommendations.

Dx age 42.  Non-palpable 1.5 cm tumor in my small, < B cup, breast.  Grades I, II, and III of III- given an overall grade of 2.  0/3 lymph nodes, but foci suspicious for lymphovascular invasion were present.  Perhaps the tumor would have been smaller, low grade, with no suspicion of lymphovascular invasion if I had had mammograms at ages 40 and 41 as I should have.

Grandmothers had breast cancer at ages ~70 and 81 - I was 42. 

My mom - Rosella, now age 96.  DX at age 49, radical bi lateral mastectomy. 

Dena Engel, diagnosed at age 45.  Found lump, sent for mammo and u/s.  Then biopsied and port put in for chemo (6 mos).  Tested pos for BRCA2 gene.  BMX this year with recon.

  This is a set up for the govt forced health care reform to avoid having to pay for preventative procedures to make the numbers look better.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.  If it was a good plan, they would be willing to be on it themselves, but they won't!

  All of the hard work so many have gone through to fight against cancer, and it's set back in one day!  Shame on them!!

Deen

Diagnosed at age 41 based on routine mammogram. My sister was diagnosed one year later at age 42. We have both had double mastectomy surgery. Today, two years after my mastectomy,I go back to my surgical oncologist for further testing on a new lump near my lymph nodes. Removing your breasts sometimes isn't enough to stifle the fear, the disease, the killer known as breast cancer.

I was dx'd at 44.  Mom died of BC at 65.  I had to demand a biopsy, my surgeon wanted to wait another 6 months.  Glad I was my own health advocate.

I am appalled and personally offended by these new so called "guidelines".  I am also going to burn Susan Love's book in my fireplece today.

Lisa R. Long.  Port St. Lucie, FL

Sandy Young diagnosed at age 49 with an MRI following a mammogram.  Family history but BRAC negative.  I'm signing this on behalf of my daughter, age 18.  She needs mammos early, not at age 50!!!

Eileen M.--Dx at age 46 Found on mammogram. Mulitfocal stage I ( 1.2 cm, 0.5 cm), Grade 2, 0/1 nodes

No risk factors, no family history, not found with BSE

Without routine mammogram screening, there's no way we found have found these before they metastasized.

I firmly belive that I'm alive and my young girls have a mother because I did routine mammogram screening in my fourties. 

Cindy B dx age 42.  Found lump doing BSE.  You know..those "worthless" exams.

Though my diagnosis came after age 50, I know MANY women - some who have left us - diagnosed under 40, let alone 50.  This is unfathomable to me, and very frightening.

Pam Yeager, age 55 at diagnosis.

Diagnosed with a very small Grade 3 tumor at age 59.  That would have been my off-year under these guidelines, and by the next year, it might well have been too late.  Whose wives, mothers, daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and nieces are these people willing to let die for NO GOOD REASON?  And WHY?

Dawn 

Dx.at age 51, no palpable lump,found on mammo

Heidi F.- TNBC 1.2 cm lump found by self-exam, confirmed by digital mammo followed by ultrsound and core biopsy

55 yo Caucasian Dx 8/09 IDC NOS (originally diagnosed as Medullary Carcinoma), lumpectomy w/>2cm clear margins, no vascular invasion, 0 nodes X2, 2.2cm (T2),
Grade III, Stage IIa TNBC, TC x4, followed by rad... begun 10/5/09
 

The new guidelines make me sick!!  I have had regular annual mams some of which led to fibroidadenomas removed from my breasts, and identifying micro calcifications that I am being watch for now in my other remaining breast.  Is Washington taking away our breast health options?  Are we going to have to fight for more women's issues.  How far back are we going to go now?

Age 44 when dx.  mammogram found my cancer!   Greatgrand mother Had B.C.  No other family history.  They called mine a cancer of chance.