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  • georgina06
    georgina06 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006

    diagnosed at 38 year old in 2000 and again at 41

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  • colco
    colco Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2006

    Was diagnosed at age 53, had 3 multi-focal grade 3 tumors and L. mastectmoy Nov. 21, nodes and bone marrow were clear. Only one 6mm tumor was invasive, and all detected on annual mammogram. Triple neg. and am to begin 8 wks of adriamyacin and cytoxan soon. My mother died of breast cancer when she was 58, less than a yr. after finding her lump.

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  • carolinakatlady
    carolinakatlady Member Posts: 17
    edited January 2006
    I was dx two days before my 39th birthday.
    4.5 cm tumor, pr/er -, Her 2 pos, clean margins, micrometastis in one node, grade 3 with angiolymphatic invasion, IDC
    Just starting chemo this week.
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  • sandy_simpson
    sandy_simpson Member Posts: 17
    edited January 2006

    I know one thing for sure, age doesn't seem to make a difference. The young and the old get this awful disease. It strikes the people in the best of health and those vegetarians (Linda McCarthy) and the ones who seem to do all the things right. I got my shocker when I was 49. I was in good shape, ate right, didn't drink, had a baby and breast fed , and tried to live a healthy life style. There was nothing that I did that caused this. Never took drugs, or even a birth control pill. But I look on the positive side of how much I have grown and become even closer to my Lord Jesus through it all. Now I lean totally on HIm and know that I am here on this journey to help others get through what I went through. To encourage you that good days are ahead, better health or there is an unimaginable home up in heaven. I stand at the bedside of dying people and look into their eyes and try to tell them to not lose heart. This life here on earth is temporary and people who get caught up in the outward appearance and money are not wise. It is not about that stuff. It is about helping and comforting people and walking to the best of our ability here so we can hear "Well done my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in a few things, come and enter into glory.": That is my goal. Sandy

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  • sierrasusieq
    sierrasusieq Member Posts: 98
    edited January 2006

    Diagnosed in 1997 at 42 years old. Lumpectomy and radiation. Recurrance now , 8 years later in same breast. Just turned 51. Mastectomy and chemo. Stage 2

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  • miki
    miki Member Posts: 22
    edited January 2006
    Hi, everyone.

    Was diagnosed on 10/21/2005 at age of 37.
    Had mastectomy and Axillary dissection and now in the middle of chemo. Rads and Tamoxifen are yet to come.
    Stage 3b

    Miki
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  • OkiePat
    OkiePat Member Posts: 9
    edited January 2006

    Diagnosed 9/30/05 at age 47 with 1.2cm Stage IIIb. Had bilateral mastectomy due to family history with 6/17 nodes positive on right side. Started TAC on 12/15 for 6 cycles and onto Rads and Hormone.

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  • trk_koa
    trk_koa Member Posts: 55
    edited January 2006
    I was diagnosed on 10/13/2005 at age 44. Premenopausal with no family history and no pregnancies.
    IDC 2.1 cm, Stage 2b, 2 of 6 nodes positive. Just had my 3rd EC yesterday with one to go, then rads, then Taxol & Herceptin

    Nancy
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  • stacey2930
    stacey2930 Member Posts: 210
    edited January 2006

    I was diagnosed 10/19 age 42 IDC/DCIS 1.5 cm grade 1 node neg. Oncotype DX score 8. Currently undergoing radiation then hormonal therapy to follow.

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  • aliciamaris
    aliciamaris Member Posts: 65
    edited January 2006

    I was diagnosed 2/16/05, age 45, premenopausal, 2.5cm IDC, 2/7 positive nodes, ER/PR+, Her2-. Did dose dense 4 AC/4 Taxol, 36 days of rads. Now taking tamoxifen - not too bad so far, except for relatively minor hot flashes...

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  • marytim
    marytim Member Posts: 20
    edited January 2006
    I was diagnosed a month before my 49th birthday (7/05). It was never picked up on mammogram...I felt it six months previously on BSE and then again brought it to the GYN's attention at my yearly follow up...thank God it was only stage 1.

    Mary
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2006

    I was diagnosed on my 58th birthday..five years ago. I had a lumpectomy, six months of CMF then they found a lump they had missed all along and it too was cancerous so I had a mastectomy. I had many problems because the chemo caused liver damage. Then at the two year mark they found a lump in my other breast. It was atypical hyperplasia. I had the lumpectomy. I started after the mast. with tamoxifen and switched to arimidex after a year. It took me four years to get back to normal life

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  • CalamityJanie
    CalamityJanie Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006

    I was 48 when I was diagnosed. It was just last fall, in fact. I am very lucky that I had my mammogram when I did. The one cancer was tiny and was confined to a milk duct. It hadn't spread at all and was non-invasive. After the lumpectomy I had six weeks of radition therapy. Hopefull, now I'm cancer free. I go back for a follow-up next week.

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  • sheetal
    sheetal Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2006

    34. They said mine was at least 10 years old.

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  • Newbie21
    Newbie21 Member Posts: 70
    edited January 2006
    My mom was just dxed at the age of 65 going on 66.

    Giulia
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  • marg1
    marg1 Member Posts: 73
    edited January 2006

    Dx at 38 with 2.4cm, DCIS, er/pr and her2 +, did 4 round of AC. Have completed 6 taxol and hercptin -- 6 more to go then Herceptin every three weeks for a year. Now 39 -- fight BC for 6 months now. My mother had BC at 67 -- now a 7 year survivor!!!!!!! She will be 75 this year.

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  • mb2226
    mb2226 Member Posts: 37
    edited January 2006

    Hi - I was diagnosed when I was 50 just this past Oct. '05... found on a routine mammogram (had been having them since age 40 when my sister-in-law died of Stage 4 bc at the age of 39)... Mine was IDC, Stage 1, nothing on the mammogram the year before but i guess i have REALLY REALLY dense breasts as everyone I have met in the last few months seems to tell me so its hard to see the bc... now in treatment and then hopefully all is well.... best.... Margaret

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  • holli
    holli Member Posts: 6
    edited January 2006
    I was 39 and a half. Diagnosed in aug of 05. Lumpectomy with one of eight nodes. Just got done with chemo and then on to rads and hormones and the ooph.

    Holli
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  • LECKY
    LECKY Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006

    I was 63 had my lumpectomy on my 64th birthday - lovely!

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  • Denise29
    Denise29 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006
    I am 38, dx Oct 05, 2 x grade3 tumours, 7/15 nodes ER/PR++ . Im still undergoing treatment.
    Denise
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  • hope2004
    hope2004 Member Posts: 4
    edited January 2006
    Wow
    What is the thing here...everyone is so young! I was 56 when diagnosed.Where are those my age...not using the internet maybe? I know there have to be more of the over 50's than the under 50's our there.
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  • swinn
    swinn Member Posts: 125
    edited January 2006

    I was just diagnosed Dec.'05. 61 yrs old.

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  • littlebabybirdie
    littlebabybirdie Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2006
    I was 55, Dx last Oct 05. Routine mammogram found microcalc., had core needle biopsy (2mm DCIS) then lumpectomy end Oct.--Dx was then IDC (Invas. Ductal carc.) only 4mm, stage 1, grade 1 ER/PR++ Her2 neg, no lymph node biopsy at all. 33 treatments radiation, now on Aromasin for almost 6 weeks.

    Hope2004,I see you are on Femara. How is that going for you?

    Jeannette
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  • littlebabybirdie
    littlebabybirdie Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2006

    Hope2004, I just saw that you posted about Femara on another thread.

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  • Twinmama
    Twinmama Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2006

    Diagnosed March 2005 at age 33. Am fourth generation to have breast cancer in my family, so wasn't surprised to learn I'm BRCA1 positive. Had a bilateral in April, started six rounds of chemo in June, and did my reconstructive surgery in November. Still in chemopause.

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  • ciruela
    ciruela Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006

    I was 59, 5 yrs ago, IDC stage 3, mastectomy,, 23 nodes removed, 6 mo. chemo. Have to keep checking my other breast with microcalcifications,with several biopsies. Like it never ends.... Good to hear from you all!

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  • deliciae
    deliciae Member Posts: 12
    edited January 2006
    I was 36, diagnosed last month (12/8/05).

    Today I feel 100, but I think it's just one of those really BLAHheavy days. Tomorrow I'll be back to feeling 36 again.
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  • jms
    jms Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006
    I was 55 when diagnosed last September, and am ashamed to say that I procrastinated getting a mammogram for 4 years after my sister went through all of the treatment that I now am undergoing. How dumb was that? On the upside, the mammogram, biopsy, and diagnosis all happened within 2 days, so I was spared the torture of a long wait.

    Janet2: lumpectomy, node dissection, A/C x 4, Taxol x 4, radiation
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  • Newbie21
    Newbie21 Member Posts: 70
    edited January 2006
    JulieS,

    May I ask what treatments you received?

    Thank you
    Giulia
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  • girls2
    girls2 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2006

    hi i have just been diagnosed at 40, doc kept saying it was nothing for a few weeks then because i pestered her she sent me for a mammagram, and hear i am, first op next fri to remove lump and some nodes

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