Sign the Petition Against the new Mammography Guidelines
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Dx IDC in July 06 at age 50. Had annual mamms since 40. No family history. Suggested changes to screening are outrageous, and I'm shocked at Dr. Susan Love's stance. Thanks, BCO, for standing strong!
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DX'd at 42 through routine mammogram. No family history of breast cancer.
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Debbie Zinser - diagnosed age 35
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I was diagnosed earlier this year, but I put off having my annual mammo for 3 years. It could have been caught at an earlier stage and before it spread to the lymph nodes with annual screenings.
I had no history of breast cancer in my family. It has to start somewhere and it started with me. We cannot afford to eliminate screening for anyone under 50. We need to be screened each year.
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Diagnosed at age 49. No family history and I never felt a lump. The cancer showed up on my mammogram. Who knows how much it might have spread if I would have had to wait another year?
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Younger women have a lot more at stake if they have breast cancer. More would have children dependent upon them. Survival rate for younger women is not as high as older women?
If true, I would think it very important to be alert, get mammograms if you and your doctor decide, and for crying out loud, yes do self checks.
I found my own lump, and with a clear mammo the previous year. Whose life is it anyway?
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ONLY mammograms would catch the calcifications that not only led to my BC diagnosis but mammograms also caught the recurrence. Yearly until they prove that DCIS is harmless because it can sneak up on you and be invasive without a lump!
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Diagnosed Stage IV at initial diagnosis at age 49 after my family doc noticed I was way overdue for a mammogram. No symptoms, no family history. Oncologist thinks the "benign cyst" I had had on the previous mammogram at age 46 was in fact cancer and should have been biopsied. If I had been having annual mammograms, we might have caught it before it had a chance to spread to my spine.
Please do not change the recommendations. I wish I had been following the old recommendations.
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I was diagnosed 6 years ago at age 44 with Stage IIb after routine mammogram. Lymph node involvement. No family history, no symptoms. I would be dead if I had waited until age 50 for a mammogram!
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Patricia Hamlin
Dx age 56 by self-exam. I want my 2 daughters to get mammograms and to do BSE regularly.
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Diagnosed age 56 by self-exam. I want my 2 daughters to get regular mammograms and BSE.
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Yes, I agree with the petition against new mammography guidelines.
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Martha Bruehl diagnosed age 47 with mets to liver, found by self exam, confirmed with ultrasound - dense breasts - not seen on mammogram. Doing well even after two recurrences!!!
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OUTRAGOUS!!!!!! I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer At the age of 32. With NO family history. My BRACA showed NO mutations. They need to lower age limits,because CANCER knows NO limits. BEING A WOMAN IS THE ONLY RISK FACTOR!!!!!!!!
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Are they kidding? Diagnosed at 43. NO family history.
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Kristin Schmidt
Dx at 39
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I was diagnosed at age 50. No masses in the breast but an enlarged lymph node was detected on the mammogram. Biopsy revealed metastatic carcinoma. No family history. Assured all my life my chances of breast cancer was less than 2%. Not bad odds until I became the 2%.
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Nancy Kodish - diagnosed 9/12/06 at 54. Found lump through BSE and already in lymph nodes 5 months after clear mammo. No family history but I have 3 daughters I want to be able to be screened
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Dx at age 40, after very first mammogram. They need to keep the current guidelines until the find something better.
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Diagnosed at age 50 with inflammatory and invasive ductal cancer, very aggressive, already spread to nodes. No family history. I'd been doing BSE for many years and because of that, I knew when I touched the lump that it was something much different than I'd ever felt. Women need to be encouraged not just to do BSE but also to understand the signs of inflammatory breast cancer, which is a dangerous and often lethal cancer. Shame on anyone who's advocating less screening.
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I was diagnosed at 53 by a mammogram. No history, no lump, and no symptoms. It was stage three. IDC and DCIS, 18 lymph nodes, 10 positive. I would probably be dead had it not been for my mammogram.
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Diagnosed at age 43 with Stage 1, Grade 3 Triple Negative breast cancer. Found through routine mammogram. Only had 3 before this one starting at age 40. Waiting 7 more years would have been devistating to say the least.
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Diagnosed at age 51, no family history---I have always done "monthly self exams" and found a lump( this is a Must for ladies and men). There should always be mammograms with no age limits and they should be done every year. I found my lump 6 months after a mammogram, with this disease, nothing should be left to chance!!!
Linda C.
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Aged 42 when lump was discovered by self examination, no family history---normal mammogram 4 months earlier
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Susan Donovan-
Diagnosed at 42 by a rountine mammogram.
Previous year, all clear.
Don't change the guidelines!
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Diagnosed at 52, never had it in my family. The mammogram saved my life. If you change the guidelines, many women will never win the fight. Stage 1 Grade 2 no nodes.
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I am a 41 year old who found my own tumor. I worry about those women who don't look for signs or are not doing breast self-exams correctly or are in denial. Screenings have been a big boost to finding breast tumors early. This has been a big obstacle. We need to be concerned about all women. The currently proposed guidelines reek of prejudice. We have to stand up for all women.
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Steve Herring (for my sister and her friend Chris, and all others bravely fighting this illness)
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age 46 in a routine mammogram. No one in the family ever before me.
This is completely asinine. How will this save the insurance companies money? By the time they do find it, it will be more advanced, leading to greater expense to treat it.
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Diana ONeill, FNP x 25 yrs, Long Beach NY.
Mammo 1/09 neg; Mammo (after lump found by me) 8/09 neg- told by Radiaologist to come back in 6 mos for sono, although I had an order for one that night.....ILC 2.6 cm, IIa Dx'd weeks later- bacause I demanded it! Keep the mammo recs, AND get more agressive about f/u on lumps w/ neg. mammos- ILC and a couple of other types do NOT show on Mammo. The rate of ILC has tripled in the last few years- why??? Fuck the money "wasted" on false positives. Fuck the insult that it is not right to put these poor women thru worry for nothing; how condescending. We waste so much $ in Health Care it's absurd. ..Hey, how those Yankees- a billion a week on our deployments overseas...total up the Pork tacked onto every bill in the house, ...
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