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Poll - How old were you when dx with BC

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  • Curlylocks
    Curlylocks Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2009

    41 at diagnosis, stage IIb.  Will be 45 in May...

  • sdg605
    sdg605 Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2009

    46 Stage 3a

    49  Stage iv mets bone and liver

  • nancyd
    nancyd Member Posts: 556
    edited February 2009

    56. And didn't miss a mammo for the previous five years.

  • sueco
    sueco Member Posts: 62
    edited February 2009

    April 2006 - 63 yrs with bone mets from the start.  My aunt had BC around age 70.  Arimidex kept me NED for almost two years.  Just had a PET scan and Tamoxifen has kept me NED for almost a year.

  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 236
    edited February 2009

    38-extensive bone mets from the get-go. I'd been going to doctors complaining about the pain (that I eventually learned was my spine crumbling from the cancer) for a number of years. Nobody ever looked any further than their prescription pad; most of them decided I was "depressed" and wrote out scripts for anti-depressants before I'd finished telling them what I was feeling.

    I was dx'd 3 years ago yesterday.

  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 144
    edited February 2009

    just turned 40 dx (started mammos at 34)

    43 mets.

  • kelly1215
    kelly1215 Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2009

    35 (stage 2b...found lump on my own, was sent for first mammo) - 2000

    41 (mets...again found on my own & took me months to convince docs) - 2006

    My sister was 31 and pregnant when I was first diagnosed. After she had the baby and stopped breastfeeding, she had her first mammogram and has had one every year since. She turned 40 last October. Her mammo's are covered by her insurance because of the age at which I was diagnosed.

  • Unknown
    edited February 2009

    49 Stage 1-2

    54 Stage 4 mets to liver and bone

  • Lifestooshort
    Lifestooshort Member Posts: 10
    edited February 2009

    41 - had my first (and totally clear) mammogram when I was 40.  A mere 5 months earlier, found huge lump myself - appeared overnite. BCRA-.

    43 - lung met

    I was told they would start mammograms on my daughters by age 30.

  • jpann39
    jpann39 Member Posts: 92
    edited February 2009

    46 the day of my lumpectomy.....my stats are listed below.....I just turned 48 this past November and to date NED.

    I was told my daughter should start mammos at 30 since Im the first ever to be dx'd with bc....yaaaaaa, what a gift to give to your kids....I was also told to talk with my son and to tell him how important it is for him to do self exams, I know its rare for male bc but why take the chance? Please dont forget your sons in this.....

  • PaulaLS
    PaulaLS Member Posts: 21
    edited February 2009

    Almost 62.  Had annual mammograms.

  • wackyjackie
    wackyjackie Member Posts: 107
    edited February 2009

    Age 46, stage IIB.

    My sister just diagnosed at 46.  not sure of stage yet.

    I tested negative for BRCA gene.  Go figure.

  • klp
    klp Member Posts: 1,454
    edited February 2009

    Found on annual mammogram....73

  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 2,582
    edited February 2009

    44. Thankfully, I have been getting mammos since 35. I never felt tumor, so I'm very very thankful for mammos!

  • AusAla
    AusAla Member Posts: 24
    edited February 2009

    41 original dx

    43 mets

    FYI, several docs told me to have my daughter get mammo's ten years before she becomes the age I was dx'd.  Moot point now...she's had a lumpectomy at age 25 that was B9!! 

  • keenie
    keenie Member Posts: 5
    edited February 2009

    I was 46.  

    I found the thickening and lump in my breast during a self-exam.  Hadn't had a mammo - was going to go in about 3 months.  

    The onc said my daughter should start mammos at 35.  She is 14 now and I pray the technology will continue to improve so all of our sons and daughters will be spared.

    Christine 

  • KellyC
    KellyC Member Posts: 2
    edited February 2009

    36 original diagnosis

    40 mets to liver and bones

  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 263
    edited February 2009

    42.  The lump was dismissed as nothing the year before, so it should have been 41.

  • Linda54
    Linda54 Member Posts: 509
    edited February 2009

    Had lumpectomy just before turning 31.  This was 24 years ago.

    2nd DX was March '08 same breast  54 years old.  Had bi-lateral MX.....

    TOO many young ones

  • Judiiiii
    Judiiiii Member Posts: 15
    edited February 2009

    Was 51 and Stage IV at diagnosis - I turn 60 this year. 

  • DaughterMom
    DaughterMom Member Posts: 30
    edited February 2009

    My mother was dx stage iv at age 60 (2 weeks before her 61st bday), this was Nov 2008.

    I am 39, found a lump, had mammo. and ultra sound in January, and now I am in the wait 6 months for another mamo. group.

  • HeatherL
    HeatherL Member Posts: 14
    edited February 2009

    36 with 3 young kids

  • smithlme
    smithlme Member Posts: 383
    edited February 2009

    47 the first time, 48 with my second diagnosis, 369 days later. My oldest sister was 36 and we are both BRCA 2+...

    Linda

  • kgrimm
    kgrimm Member Posts: 20
    edited February 2009

    35 at orig. diagnosis, mets at age 49.

  • Caseysmom
    Caseysmom Member Posts: 70
    edited February 2009

    36 was dx with IBC

  • preschool842002
    preschool842002 Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2009

    My daughter was dx at age 32.Found the lump herself.Thank heaven for a Doctor who took quick action. Lumpectomy,chemo and radiation. Recurrance age 34.Masectomy ,and chemo again. Recurrance was local.So far she is NED one year later.

  • WingsofHope
    WingsofHope Member Posts: 11
    edited February 2009

    DX stage 2B at 31



    Mets 38

  • WingsofHope
    WingsofHope Member Posts: 11
    edited February 2009

    DX stage 2B at 31



    Mets 38

  • SunshineSmiles
    SunshineSmiles Member Posts: 10
    edited February 2009

    Baseline mammo at 35- dense breasts

    Dx at 40 Stage IIIa ILC 3 tumors- 9/11 nodes +

    Dx with bone (42) and liver mets (43) 

  • MelG
    MelG Member Posts: 4
    edited February 2009

    41 - the day after my birthday.   7.5cm tumor, so was probably there for years.  Stage III(a).