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  • Posted on: Apr 11, 2005 06:26 pm
Joined: Aug 2004
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joyce_anne wrote:
Hi i was wondering how old you were when diagnosed. i was 61. well i have turned 62 now. i hope i am not being to nosey. i have just been wondering. my doctor said i had my cancer for a couple yrs though. god bless..

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BBLady
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 96
Sep 25, 2008 04:24 pm BBLady wrote:

I was dx two days after my 52 birthday.  Lump with calcifications was found on routine mammo.  Have been very faithful to have one done every year since 40.  Just finished chemo about a month ago and I'm starting to feel more like normal.

Kathy


Dx 4/26/2008, IDC, <1cm, Stage Ib, Grade 3, 0/3 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2+
hostanut
Brownsville, WI
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 178
Oct 3, 2008 09:37 am hostanut wrote:

  I was within weeks of turning 58 when I was diagnosed, and turned 60 this year.  No family history, however I have a paternal aunt who was 90 when diagnosed, and she just celebrated her 99th birthday in June!!!  You are NEVER too old for a mammogram, no matter what some of those doctors tell you (especially the elderly)!!!   I can't stress that enough to some of my pts. (I'm a home care RN).       Nancy

DX 4/06, IDC, 2.5 cm.,stage IIa, grade 1, 0 nodes, ER+PR+, HER-2 neg.
kathimdgd
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 207
Oct 4, 2008 06:17 pm kathimdgd wrote:

WOW sooooooooooo many of you are so young,and to think that they used to say you didn't even need a mammo before turning 40.Guess that went down the tubes!!!  I was diagnosed this august and i had just had my 70th b'day in March.What a shock it was,in a way.Then again i have sisters that were all diagnosed late in life as well.One was 70 and she turned 82 this year.One was 65 and she turned 77 ths year and one was 51,and she lived to be 68,but she didn't die from the cancer,she died from a DR'S mistake during another unrelated surgery.

My dad's mom had BC in 1929 had a mastectomy and only radiation and lived to be 94.

Kathi
Lucy47
Brampton, On
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 211
Oct 4, 2008 06:33 pm Lucy47 wrote:

I was 47 years old when I was dx....Had my first mammogram at 46 yrs which came back normal. The following year I found the lump myself.....


Dx 11/23/2007, DCIS, 2cm, Stage II, Grade 2, 0/4 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2-
strongmom37…
Amesbury, MA
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 36
Oct 10, 2008 01:24 pm, edited Oct 10, 2008 03:33 PM by strongmom37 strongmom37 wrote:

Just dx on 8/29/08 at 37. Sister was dx at 44 but hers was found much earlier, DCIS. Mine unfourtunately was much farther along. Will start chemo next week and then rads. Just found out I am BRCA2 ++. Long family history of various cancers. I have 2 toddlers who keep me going and make me smile and laugh everyday!


Dx 8/28/2008, IDC, 5cm, Stage IIIb, Grade 3, 6/15 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2+
dawn2203
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 62
Oct 10, 2008 01:43 pm dawn2203 wrote:

I found my lump when I was 40 but doctors said it was nothing to worry about finally diagnosed lump as malignant when I was 41. 

every morning i awake is another day with my loved ones
Dx 10/18/2006, IDC, 2cm, Stage I, Grade 1, 3/15 nodes, ER+, HER2-
tweetybird
Bayville, NY
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 66
Oct 10, 2008 01:47 pm tweetybird wrote:

I was 44, and had mamo's every year since I was 35, a paternal aunt was a 20 year survivor. She passed away in January from altzimers. My ob/gyn fought with my insurance company to have a mamo done at such a young age, because of my family history. My insurance only started to cover them at 40. Thank God that I did go for it, my first one came up with calcifications, that looks the same as DCIS, which I did have in the same breast (right) 9 years later. I look at my aunt, and a very dear friend of my Dad's that he grew up with, who was diagnosed at 37, and just turned 75 over the summer!!!!!

Janet :)
Dx 7/24/2006, DCIS, 1cm, Stage 0, Grade 1, 0/5 nodes, ER+/PR+
markd
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 29
Oct 14, 2008 11:54 am markd wrote:

i am male so dont have mammo's///correctio i do now. im 38 now dx at 37 a year ago (oct 4th 2007), DCIS so i was lucky...blood on my shirt sent me to doc who sent me away with a plaster/bandaid. I did not accept that so made my own appointment with breast surgeon privately. And here I am..thank god i did that or who knows what could have happened ....live strong ladies..your honary sister Mark...xx


Dx 10/4/2007, DCIS, <1cm, Stage 0, Grade 2, 0/0 nodes, ER+/PR+
cebula
Elkton, MD
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 612
Oct 14, 2008 11:57 am cebula wrote:

33, was diagnosed last week.
shari1232
MD
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 161
Oct 14, 2008 11:59 am shari1232 wrote:

43

Yay for our honorary sister Mark!  You rock for posting and for getting the help you needed when you were literally given a band-aid.


Dx 8/6/2008, IDC, 2cm, Stage IIa, Grade 2, 0/6 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
markd
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 29
Oct 15, 2008 11:00 am markd wrote:

shari...thanks for that...ive learnt so much here...i just hope other guys find it early and come here too.....you all rock too!!!! LIVESTRONG!!!!!

M x


Dx 10/4/2007, DCIS, <1cm, Stage 0, Grade 2, 0/0 nodes, ER+/PR+
Harley44
Carolina Shores, NC
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,766
Oct 15, 2008 11:07 am Harley44 wrote:

YAY, Mark!!  Never let a dr. give you the brush-off!! 

I was 43 when I was dx'd, the month before my 44th b-day.  I am now 45, and just had my ONE year anniversary from finishing chemo last week!!

Harley
wahoo1
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 10
Oct 17, 2008 01:52 am wahoo1 wrote: I will be 72 before all this crap is over with and I know something definite.  Some wonderful soul in my family had the gall to tell me, well you have lived a long charmed life up to now, BULLSHIT.  I do more in a half day then she does in a week.  I wanted to slug her,  Hmmm. Might yet.  Sealed
ebann
Glendale, AZ
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 316
Oct 17, 2008 02:22 am ebann wrote:

I am 44, woke up on March 9th and my breast was swollen and double the size of my other one. I called the dr. the next day. Dr. Parker prescribed me antibiotics to treat me for masitis. It had been a week and the antibiotic did not work. So Dr. Parker prescribed a stronger antibiotic. Nothing changed after 2 weeks, and then he had me have a mammogram and ultrasound. My right side showed calcifacations, my left side showed nothing. April 3rd I went to see Dr, Walker (bs) she said she needed to do a biopsy on my left breast ASAP. So she did. That is when I had a feeling it was IBC, she had told me that she thought it must be IBC. She called me and that is when I got my dx on April 10th Left Breast IBC, Then April 21st I went to Phx Baptist Hosp. to have my right side biopsied. Received a call from Dr. Walker and was dx on April 25th Right Breast DCIS. Did chemo for 6 months, Had radical mastectomy Sept. 29th, removed a 12.5 tumor from my left breast. More cancer has spread. Have to do more chemo with radiation. Right breast is cancer free.

Blessings, Elizabeth

angel

www.up2god.net
Dx 4/10/2008, IBC, 6cm+, Stage IIIb, Grade 3, 3/16 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-
mollykitten…
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 33
Oct 17, 2008 10:22 pm, edited Oct 17, 2008 10:25 PM by mollykitten mollykitten wrote:

First Diagnosed with a malignancy about 1 month after my 35 birthday.

Found my lump myself 4 days after my dad went into remission for lymphoma and 12 days after this past New Years.

So far had surgery in Feb, followed by radiation and now doing chemo.  


Dx 2/21/2008, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 2, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
fire
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 130
Oct 17, 2008 11:01 pm fire wrote:

I had discharge from breast when I was 38 (1995), had found lump,too.

Had biopsy - doctor was so old- couldn't get to the point and get biopsy.

Talked about removing lump with doctor Layra Esserman at UCSF, showed her article about Nikol Kidman - she had lump removed.

Doctor said do not remove lump, but to have mammo every year, which I did, never missed one.

My sister in Israel had lump 18 years ago, and doctor removed it. She never had cancer.

Thanks god.

I was examined my breast like doctor recommend.

In 2002-2003 I got pain in right breast, and it got little bigger than left one.

I was asking for diagnostic mammo, but didn't get one.

I lost weight - around 4-5 pounds ( which never happened before) and got terrible knees pain.

I was scared- i came to doctors to see if I have no cancer, but screening mammo was normal.

2003- my another sister , why just turns 50 got cancer.

I againcame to the Kaiser and asked about diagnostic mammo, but no again.

I complained on pain, but nobody care.

At 2006 I couldn't bear the pain anymore and ask to see a surgeon.

Surgeon referred me to a diagnostic mammo, after that- yltrasound, biopsy - I had IDC tumor 4 sm; tumor 0,8 sm; and lymf node tumor - 1 sm

I was 48.

Now I'm almost 51.


Dx 7/3/2006, IDC, 4cm, Stage II, Grade 3, 1/12 nodes, ER+/PR+
hopefullady…
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 209
Oct 17, 2008 11:30 pm hopefullady wrote:

I was diagnosed about a month before my 51st birthday.  I hope to be done with all treatments before I turn 52.

Chris 
kimbly
MI
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 384
Oct 18, 2008 10:18 am kimbly wrote:

a few months after my 46th birthday.  I have since turned 47.. finished chemo ..finishing up my last few months of herceptin now. Not sure how long the cancer was there with the HER+.  I had baseline mammo at 35, then next mammo was at 41 and the I skipped a few years until the mammo that found the tumor/microcalcs.  I did not feel a lump.... neither did my doctor who I had been to the same week I had my mammo. 


Dx 11/21/2007, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, 0/3 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2+
coonie
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 6,052
Oct 18, 2008 10:31 am coonie wrote:

Diagnosed last November at age 44........routine mammogram.

~PEACE~ When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Dx 11/14/2007, IDC, 2cm, Stage IIa, Grade 2, 0/15 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2+
Joe13
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 17
Oct 19, 2008 11:25 pm, edited Oct 19, 2008 11:31 PM by Joe13 Joe13 wrote:
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Joe13
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 17
Oct 19, 2008 11:31 pm Joe13 wrote:

I got diagnosed last April 2008 at 29 years old, i turned 30 years old during summer 2008 n now i just finished 8 rounds of chemo  ( AC + T every 2 weeks)....finally!!!!

I'm starting radiations soon in nov 08 plus have to be 5 years on tamoxifen because my ER borderline positive...I discovered the lump myself one morning by chance it was hard n painful on the upper inner quadrant of my right breast between 12 and 1 o'clock.

 Lots of Love to all!!!


Dx 4/11/2008, IDC, 2cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/6 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2-
searching4
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 55
Oct 19, 2008 11:46 pm searching4 wrote:

I am 53, diagnosed 3 months ago, 2 weeks after my birthday.  From a routine mammogram.

Hey wahoo1, are you a UVa alumna?

Deb


Dx 7/10/2008, IDC, <1cm, Stage Ib, Grade 2, 0/2 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
farila_1966…
India
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 220
Oct 20, 2008 12:13 am farila_1966 wrote:

I was diagnosed at the age of 29 years. I found a lump in my left breast while breast feeding my 11 month old baby girl. At first thought it was something related to breast feeding but when felt it again when showering a week ago. Decided to ask for a doctors opinion who recommended FNB. DX with IDC. That was 12 years ago.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.. Never give up on anyone. Especially yourself !!!
Dx 4/2/1996, IDC, , Stage IIIa, 8/10 nodes
tawyna77
williamsburg, ky
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 12
Nov 10, 2008 11:13 pm tawyna77 wrote: upSmile
tawyna
Dx None
tawyna77
williamsburg, ky
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 12
Nov 10, 2008 11:13 pm, edited Nov 10, 2008 11:14 PM by tawyna77 tawyna77 wrote:
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klp
Nipomo, CA
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,732
Nov 12, 2008 10:39 am klp wrote:

I am 73 and dx in Sept. 08 after my annual mammogram. Healing now from a lumpectomy and will find out more on tx after consultation with an oncologist 11-19-08.

Kathy
Dx 10/10/2008, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 2, 0/2 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
KathyESP
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 31
Nov 12, 2008 07:56 pm KathyESP wrote:

I was 47 and received the news on April 1st. (Fool's Day) of this year. Went through chemo spring and summer. Had a bi-lateral mastectomy Sept. 15th. Started radiation on Halloween. Also going through reconstruction with expanders.

Kathy F.
kjbell
upstate, ny
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 872
Nov 12, 2008 09:17 pm kjbell wrote:

I was diagnosed this past Sept.  I am 47.
guitarGrl
La Jolla, CA
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 584
Nov 12, 2008 09:24 pm guitarGrl wrote:

I was diagnosed a month before my 60th birthday


Dx 11/29/2007, IDC, <1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/2 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-
ShondaE
Las Vegas, NV
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 46
Nov 12, 2008 09:58 pm ShondaE wrote:

I am 38 and was diagnosed on Oct 30 08.  I found a painful lump while we were on vacation celebrating my birthday.

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