Poll - How old were you when dx with BC

37 years old stage 3b and 39 with stage 4 with bone mets.

25 when diagnosed stage iii; 28 when diagnosed stage iv with mets to bones, liver, lungs, & some lymph nodes around liver. Doesn't run in my family at all -- neither does any other kind of cancer. Found the original lump myself and got lucky with an unrelated cough the second time -- I'm currently asymptomatic!

I had just turned 52. Never felt a lump, just redness in skin on breast. OB/GYN had a good friend dx with inflammatory breast cancer so she sent me for a diagnostic mammogram. Core needle biopsy of breast and lymph node, skin punch. 4 days later, dx IBC. Stage IV. Mets to bones.

47, still 47, stage 1b, grade 1, er/pr+, her negative Microcalcifications on yearly mammo that weren't there year before. Initially thought to be only DCIS but after bmx had .9 mm IDC, another area of .1 mm IDC along with 4 cm DCIS all in right breast. No symptoms. No family history. God is going to protect me from this bully.

i was 52 when i found the lump, and my bc surgeon told me i had probably had it for 8 years. my math is truly bad, but that would have made me about 45. which was when i had had my last mammo, which i had begged them not to do, as my breast was red and painful, and swollen. i begged them please, to go straight to ultrasound as i did not want my breast squished with the pain i was already having. i had been going to this place for low income woman, and they assured me mammos always hurt. i felt the woman who performed them, allways gave a couple extra wrenches,flattening my d cup to a half inch thick pancake. that time, doc aspirated greenish yelloew thick fluid,guided by ultra sound, after the painful mammo they insisted upon performing first. he called it an inflammation, but the stuff in the syringe certainly looked like pus to my uneducated eye, signifying an infection. this was a place i went to every six months, cause i have very dense breasts that seemed to be subject to cysts. after they did that, i never went back there. or anywhere. i figured, a bump was always a cyst that resolved on its own, i ll live with it. 2012, i found a lump that felt different, went to a different imaging place(didnt hurt there!) and knew in my soul they were going to find cancer. sure enough. i had waited two months between finding the lump, till seeing the doctor,while trying to arrange the facts in my head, and preparing myself mentally, as well as i could, also visiting my mother,without breathing a word to her,cause i didnt want my visit to be all about me and my boob. i had missed seeing her the year before because i was with a dying friend,lung cancer that went to her brain.

Initial dx. 49



Mets. 60

Got my diagnosis on my 55th birthday - almost 1 year ago - by a mamogram.  No family history - totally out of the blue

47, stage iv to liver and one place on bone from the start.

my gynecologist had dropped me to the every two year mammogram. i had been scanned in 2009, not in 2010, and stage iv in 2011.  my oncologist just told me to not go there in terms of that ticking me off, but it does. 

so the new standards of scanning only every 2 years and starting at 50 will result in deaths. all to save a little money. ok. i'm pissed. i'll stop.

Age 32. Stage IV from the start.

27 Stage I, 30 Stage IV

I was 36 original BC Stage IV with bone mets

38 mets to liver

39 ovarian cancer

41 mets to lung and brain

Found at age 62 through mammogram.  Had yearly mammos since age 40 always around my birthday, no history of breast cancer whatsoever in either side of family.  Missed my yearly mammo in 2008 as my daughter was very ill - figured it was no big deal since I never even had a call back throughout the years.  Went  in Feb. 2009 and whamo!  TNBC, 1.2 cm.  5 cms under the nipple, so I never felt it at all.  I hated reading all these posts and seeing just how young 98% of you are.   I hate this disease.

53 stage IV out of the gate.

48 stage 2

59 local recurrence

64 metastasis to bones

40, but as it was 9cm total load it had prob been kicking around since i was about 35