Would you mind sharing your age at time of diagnosis?
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I was 62 at diagnosis
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Welcome Marymoo24 and fancynancy1955, and thank you for chiming in. We welcome you both warmly here.
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I was 47, a couple of months younger than my mom when she was diagnosed.
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This past September at the age of 70.
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i was diagnosed with bc in april of this year. I have had a port placed and a Lumpectomy scheduled June 27. Chemo and radiation to follow.
I am 68. Guess I can be the granny of you all.
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Welcome, Sea1951! We're so sorry you find yourself here, but we hope you find this to be a place of support as you begin down this road. People of all ages and all walks of life are welcomed here, and the diversity among our members is part of what makes this community great
we wish you the best with your upcoming lumpectomy!
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I was 49
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Officially dx @ 36, though my first abnormal mammo was at age 35. They found a "lymph node" they wanted to watch... It wasn't a lymph node after all.
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47 at diagnosis for me. I turned 48 waiting for my MX.
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I was 78 when I was diagnosed although BS thinks it had been there for as much as 10 years. Couldn't be seen on mammo due to moderately dense breasts. Now 80 and doing fine so far.
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I was 47, soon to be 48. I had a biopsy at 45 that can back benign, interestingly enough my BS said it has probably been there 2 years. I got the impression that when she looked at my pathology report from 2 years earlier that something in there might have suggested precancerous cells.
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I was 56
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Welcome, JosephineAnne! We're sorry you find yourself here, but we hope you find support within this community!
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63 2 months before turning 64)
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I was 35 the first time and 49 this (hopefully LAST!) time.
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35. Diagnosed 2 months after getting engaged, then got married shortly before mastectomy while my breast was still intact for the wedding dress.
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I was 45. I was being screened every six months due to some suspicious lesions found in my ‘good’ breast a few years prior during routine Mammo. Somehow it didn’t show up during those screening until it was quite large
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Age 56 just 2 months before my 57th birthday, found on mammogram.
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57, 1 month before my 58th birthday...
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43 at dx
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55, one month before I turned 56
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I was 51, about 3 months before my 52nd birthday and significantly older than my sister's age at the time of her diagnosis. She was 35, about 3 months before her 36th birthday.
In September of 2013, when I was 46, I received the dreaded call back for a diagnostic mammogram, but I was given the all clear. I can't help but wonder now if what they originally saw back then was the beginning of my cancer because the diagnostic one was a spot compression in the same area where both of my cancerous areas were discovered. I was told my cancer was caught early, but who knows how long it really was there?
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45, April 2019
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I was 43.
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38 dxd June 26, 2019
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I was diagnosed at age 52. I have four older sisters and a mother all without breast cancer. How did I get so lucky
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42, it was my first mammogram.
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33 years old, almost 5 years ago in 2014.
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