Poll - How old were you when dx with BC

46 yrs old. 1 mo before my birthday. My sister was also 46 when she was dx

Initial dx, day before my 31st birthday. Bone mets, age 36.

63

51

28 at first dx of stage II

39 at second dx of stage I and then bone mets stage IV

4

 49 

50 at diagnosis.

 I had been getting callbacks for the same spot on my mammograms for over ten years (different facilities) and each time was told it was nothing or a ridge or a very fibrous area.  After my diagnosis, the radiologist looked at one of the mammograms and said he couldn't believe that no one did a biopsy.  However, I do believe that something happened in the year or so before diagnosis to turn whatever it was into fast-growing very high KI-67 IDC (& DCIS).  I'd been through several years of extraordinary stress prior to diagnosis. (And ate at lot of soy protein bars that last year, blah blah blah) I hate myself for not insisting on a biopsy -- so many of you have been smart & assertive enough to demand biopsies.  It never crossed my mind.  Probably would have been just DCIS if daignosed much earlier.

32

36....BMX, IDC, Stage IIa, Grade 3, 1/13 nodes, triple positive.  Was tested for BRCA1 & 2, came back negative!  I was dx after I went in for a routine physical and told the doc my right nipple had been itchy for a little while.  She was not too concerened, but sent me for a mammo and they found cancer on the left.  NOTHING on the right!  Every doctor I saw told me how lucky I was that I didn't wait until 40 to have a mammo.  My new slogan has been..."Thank God for an itchy nipple!"  I went through 18 weeks of TCH, am now in remission, still doing herceptin and started tamoxifen for the next 5 years!  Thanks for starting this thread.  It is interesting to see the age range.  I agree we should not have to wait until 40!

Age 26, prekids, second diagnosis age 47 stage 4 with mets!

2 months after I turned 50 - although I had a benign biopsy at age 46 which got lumpier as the years went by - none of my mammos caught anything - I just had a bad feeling & finally insisted on another biopsy - OOOPS! Stage IIIC...!

Julie

age 57  one month later after my son moving to USA  ... am egyptian ...  i have never felt any pain in my breast and i have skipped a couple of years mammo .. i regret that .. dont know yet which stage i am ...  wish me luck ,,, am praying for each of you 

I was 36

Stage 1 - 35

Stage IV - 37

42 (Nov 2011) - Stage IV - Lump, lymph nodes, liver, lungs, spine and right hip.