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  • tubby
    tubby Member Posts: 15
    edited September 2007

    I was diagnosed in June age 61, seems to be a popular age for it doesn't it,had WLE & Axillary clearance July 3rd & start chemo tomorrow.Am feeling a tad wobbly tonight , probably be just feeling sick in 24hrs.

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  • ocinny414
    ocinny414 Member Posts: 123
    edited September 2007

    I was diagnosed 2 weeks before my 38th bday.  I had a mammogram at 35 for baseline and it was clear.  My tumor was 3 cm.  I'm one month out of treatments and doing great so for.  Still have SE's but they are getting better.

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  • labhusky
    labhusky Member Posts: 177
    edited September 2007

    I am 51y and a little over 4 mos and just officially diagnosed yesterday with dcis

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  • llivtswm
    llivtswm Member Posts: 58
    edited September 2007

    I'm 56 diagnosed April 2007. Waiting for surgeon to set up appts. since Aug. 06th. Oh yea I found the lump myself and my family Doc. thought it was just a sweat gland, gave me a cream to put on it for a week before asking for a mamogram.

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited September 2007

    to the top

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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited September 2007

    I was 55.

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  • geebung
    geebung Member Posts: 1,851
    edited September 2007

    I had just turned 50 - dx with extensive DCIS, node neg, WLE then mastectomy.

    gb 

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  • sam408
    sam408 Member Posts: 1,099
    edited September 2007

    I was diagnosed two weeks before my 50th birthday. Spent that big birthday recouperating from surgery.

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  • 3boys4me
    3boys4me Member Posts: 319
    edited September 2007

    I was diagnosed in February of this year at age 46. 

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  • Marlee
    Marlee Member Posts: 17
    edited September 2007

    i was diagnosed at 49 1/2.  Doctor said it was a miracle that my radiologist caught it (because it was soooo small).  Have had a mascetomy and am recovering fine at week 8.

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  • rumoret
    rumoret Member Posts: 685
    edited September 2007

    Found the lump 3 months before seeing doctor....I thought I would wait and see if it went down...but still made my doctor appointment after waiting the first month.....I was 48 years old and would be diagnosed in April 2006. Turned 49 years old on the day of my lumpectomy....HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I had my baseline at 40 years old and then at 44 years old. I changed jobs and doctors left my medical group....so I had been busy delaying getting a new doctor.....but I always did monthly breast exams....and that is what found the lump. My radiologist said that my breasts were so dense that they probably would not have even seen the cancer on a mamogram a few years earlier should I have had one done then. I saw my digital mamograms and boy were my breasts WHITE! So I literally had to wait for the lump to be felt. There is no good lump, bump, or cyst.........get them all out!



    Love,

    Terry

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  • Harley44
    Harley44 Member Posts: 5,446
    edited October 2007

    Hi.


    I was dx'd in March 2007, at age 43, and my birthday was April 21... I turned 44.  I had my bi-lateral mast. on May 2nd.  I remember being happy that I would still have my breasts, and not be in pain on my birthday.

    I am about to have my LAST chemo tx! on Oct. 9th, and reconstruction on Nov. 7th...  YIPPEE!!

    HARLEY

    P.S.  oh, then it's on to hormone treatment, probably Tamoxifen first, then maybe switching to an AI after a couple of years...

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  • edna1901
    edna1901 Member Posts: 17
    edited October 2007

    I was 71 and now 72.  Mom died from breast cancer at 46.  Boy I thought I'd dodged the bullet but cancer can hit us at any age.

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  • red5902
    red5902 Member Posts: 72
    edited October 2007

    My husband and I were celebrating my 48th birthday (July 6th)  by having a nice dinner out.  On our way home I had an itch under my left armpit and as I scratched it my baby finger rested on a lump on my breast.  Things moved very quickly.  My husband is an ultrasound tech. at our hospital.  I was diagnosed with Stage II  B.C July 10th and had a full mastectomy July 12th - just six days after finding the lump.   Many have said "What a birthday present"!  My belief is that it truly was.  What if I had not found it that day?

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  • marnboy
    marnboy Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2007

    I was 35. I had an extremely special birthday (the birth of my 2nd child). I went to the 6 week checkup after having her and the doc found the lump. Less than a month later, had a mastecomy. It was stage 2B. She is now 18 months. Still undergoing chemo.

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited October 2007

    Age 45 stage IIIc triple neg. Now 47 and hoping to grow old.

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited October 2007

    up again

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  • seacat
    seacat Member Posts: 29
    edited October 2007

    I was (am) 52.  Found it in July this year while we were sailing round Britain.  I was tying my hair up, noticed a puckering on the underside of one breast, felt a lump there.  Grade 3 stage 2. 

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  • vlorsong
    vlorsong Member Posts: 36
    edited October 2007

    I had just turned 42.  One year out and so far so good!

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  • flash
    flash Member Posts: 1,685
    edited October 2007

    Feel 30 but actually 46

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  • ddd
    ddd Member Posts: 82
    edited October 2007

    41

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  • lucyemmons
    lucyemmons Member Posts: 43
    edited October 2007

    I was (am) 43.  Dx Jan. 2007, 5 days after my birthday.  IDC stage 1 grade 1 no nodes.  Had bilat mast with TRAM recons on Feb 2.  Am doing beautifully on Tamoxifen and am back to work full time.  

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  • lewisfamily503
    lewisfamily503 Member Posts: 621
    edited October 2007

    I had atypical hyperplasia at age 43 and now at age 49, breast cancer. I was told back at age 43 that my chances were better with tamoxifen but I opted not to take it. I still am at peace with that decision. But now, I am looking at a mastectomy in a month or so, and that is REALLY freaking me out!!!!

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  • shannonann2
    shannonann2 Member Posts: 7
    edited October 2007

    I was diagnosed the day after my 28th birthday, last month.  I had found a lump one day while I was showering.  I just started chemo last week.

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  • Shepgirl
    Shepgirl Member Posts: 305
    edited October 2007

    I was 42, found on mammo about 7 months after nursing. 

    I'm 46 now.  Been a tough road; but still enjoying life.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    Daddy's lung cancer swept him away on May 30/07.  Said a very tearful goodbye to him on Jun 02/07. Mamo on Jun 07/07 - suspicious findings therefore, ultra sound guided core biopsy on Jul 19/07. Given the news of the diagnosis on the morning of my 1st scheduled day of back to work from a long holiday - I never made it to the office - turned the day into sick leave and am still on it.  Results of DX on Aug 07/07 with lumpectomy on Aug 23/07. Have had the 1st of 6 FEC-T chemo treatments then RADS and tamoxifen. All this at the ripe ole age of 46.

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  • rumoret
    rumoret Member Posts: 685
    edited October 2007

    I was 48 years and 7 months old when I discovered lump.......49 years old when they took the lump out on my birthday.



    Love,

    Terry

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited November 2007

    bumping up

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  • jenner
    jenner Member Posts: 8
    edited November 2007

    I was 34 and pregnant with my third child (a girl, finally!). Had both DCIS and Invasive Ductal. Small, though - just Stage I, thankfully. Had a modfied radical mast. on my left at 6 months pregnant. Chemo 4 months after giving birth. Now, just over 1 year out, I'm setting up my reconstruction, but finding yucky things in my right...it's coming off, anyway, but will it be soon enough?!?! Reconstruction's not scheduled until next April!

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  • sammysgammy
    sammysgammy Member Posts: 12
    edited November 2007

    I was and still am 53, first in my family history, felt the 4 x 3 mm lump myself, two nodes affected, last mamogram was at about 49 so I don't know how fast it grew or how long I had it !  Never had any pain but just before feeling the lump I started to feel pain!  Only thing I can think since I don't smoke, or have a history is that I took birth control pills for a number of years ! 

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