How old were you?

Found a lump in the shower at 44, DX with IDC two weeks later, three days after my 45th birthday.

 In the UK we don't get routine mammograms until we're 50 so it's a good job I'd lost about 40 lb in weight the year before or it might not have been found until it had got even worse (it was already in my lymph nodes).

Diagnosed at age 44 ~ just celebrated my 45th birthday last month. 

I was 43 when I received the news.  I had the mastectomy the week of my 44rh birthday.  A bummer but I am alive!  I just found out at about the same time as last year that the BC has metastisized to the brain and lungs.  I'm a fighter and I'm not going down withought a big fight

I was 42. It was in the same spot as a previous cyst. Figured it was just another cyst, but it hurt.

Anyway, turned out to be the HER2 and grew fast. Had been getting mammos since I was 34 due to all the cysts that kept popping up. 

Dx @ 29 yrs old with IDC and BRCA 1+

I was diagnosed when I was 48.

Dx @ 48, still 48.

Had a lumpectomy in 2003, benign. Same breast 7 years later, felt a pin prick then felt the lump and it hurt. The tumor is located in a different quadrant.

I'm 76..........diagnosed on Feb. 15th.........Lumpectomy on March 14th...........1.1cm tumor, no node involvement.............2mm margins all around except 1 small area was 1.2 and 1.5......Rads ordered, completed 36 which included 8 boosts on June 14th.................now they are suggesting Femara.........have not begun yet...don't want to take it.

Oncotype score was 8.............sailed through Rads without incident.............I feel ancient compared to you ladies................your too young for this disease.........I have 3 daughters, and it would kill me if this happened to them.........good luck, and God bless.

I was 59 when I was diagnosed after my annual mammogram.  There were no symptoms.  I had the mammogram on Jan. 3 thinking I would start the new year right and get the test out of the way.  What a year it has been since then.  Two surgeries and four TC treatments later, I am now starting radiation.  No complaints from me.  I have been blessed with great support from my DH and DD and many friends, good doctors, and caring nurses along the way.

I am sad for all the young women struggling with BC.  I am 71 and have already enjoyed a rich, full and healthy life but I am not ready to jump out of the pool.  I am newly diagnosed and still am trying to wrap my mind around it.   I pray to be able to continue working and get through whatever is ahead of me.

Diagnosed at 28. Had a CT scan of the chest in Nov, 2010 that showed the tumor at 1.5cm, but they missed it. I ended up finding the lump myself in April when it was 2.3cm. Still bitter about them missing and delaying my diagnosis by 5 months!

So many young women...Like someone else said ,I feel ancient. I wqas diagnosed 3 weeks before my 67th birthday and on my 37th wedding anniversary. Boy, did that put a damper on our celebration!

Barbara

I am 50 and have just been diagnosed on July 19.  I have IDC, approximately 1 to 1.5 cm, and will have a lumpectomy and rads.  Tumor is a grade 1 (yeah!).  Found the lump myself and had regular mammo in January of this year.  Dr. said nothhing showed on that mammo.

I was 43 when diagnosed.

I week before my 47 birthday i am 54 now had surgery chemotherapy, raditation, tired HRT lots of prescription medications and are still seeing my oncologist 7 years later primary due to lymphedema arm and truncal infections 1/18 Progrestrone - estorgen + HER- grade 2 axilla disection i would have to tell all who comes behind me to ask your surgeon about lymphedema this is a chronic disability and there is no cure,