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  • goodprognosis
    goodprognosis Member Posts: 195
    edited January 2017

    Thank you for doing this Freya. Makes interesting reading. I was diagnosed at 59. Interesting what Lolis says above. I just scraped in to that bracket. I take your DH's point that older than 70 might not be on this site too much. But also people sometimes die from another disease before reaching that age, so that accounts for the fall off in numbers too.

    An interesting exercise nonetheless. Keep those stats. Perhaps you could add them to another survey later on. There are often surveys and stats that others are interested in doing here.

    GP

  • Lolis
    Lolis Member Posts: 294
    edited January 2017

    Before I was dx I thought BC was a dx for over 50 (grandma died of BC at 54 but I am BRCA -ve) but I was so wrong.

  • Freya
    Freya Member Posts: 329
    edited January 2017

    That is what I thought too Lolis. In Australia the free screening mammograms start at 50, or did last time I checked. I had always been incredibly healthy, so gave no thought to having one sooner. I did do self breast exams every month though. I was 44 at dx, but my BS said the cancer was probably there for up to 10 years.

  • Poodlelover
    Poodlelover Member Posts: 15
    edited January 2017

    I was diagnosed last year at 41.

  • stephilosphy00
    stephilosphy00 Member Posts: 161
    edited January 2017

    Dx at 29. Turning 30 in 2 months. Hopefully I can make it to 40 without recurrence and mets.

  • Fightingirl
    Fightingirl Member Posts: 328
    edited January 2017

    I am 43. Diagnosed 2 months ago today

  • Fightingirl
    Fightingirl Member Posts: 328
    edited January 2017

    bosumblues, seriously. What the heck?????

  • erento
    erento Member Posts: 187
    edited January 2017

    39

  • jrow7
    jrow7 Member Posts: 15
    edited January 2017

    40, screening mammogram found it

  • Dragonfly19
    Dragonfly19 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2017

    46, I found a small lump and had it checked after it doubled in size within a three month period.

  • STinAZ
    STinAZ Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2017

    Diagnosed at 41 in June 2016. I went to four different medical professionals who all thought I had a minor skin issue before I saw a dermatologist who diagnosed paget's on my right breast. Based on an MRI, there was a small 6mm underlying mass

  • hazzlane7
    hazzlane7 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2017

    I was 66. In fact, I got the definitive diagnosis on my 66th birthday. Whoopee.

  • tadover
    tadover Member Posts: 31
    edited January 2017

    I was 47, a month shy of 48. Found at my yearly mammogram.

  • tapwhite
    tapwhite Member Posts: 7
    edited January 2017

    Age 49 at DX of ILC, 5 days before Christmas and 3 weeks later on my 50th bday I found out that my nodes were clear 😀

  • LovesChristmas-Barb
    LovesChristmas-Barb Member Posts: 504
    edited January 2017

    I was 53.

  • Imkopy2
    Imkopy2 Member Posts: 214
    edited January 2017

    45

  • Misty879
    Misty879 Member Posts: 9
    edited January 2017

    I was 36 when diagnosed, 2 months shy of my 37th birthday.

  • RoseRN1
    RoseRN1 Member Posts: 44
    edited January 2017

    61. Found on routine mammo

  • eemaxx
    eemaxx Member Posts: 6
    edited February 2017

    42, just diagnosed in Dec, 2016 after my yearly mammogram showed some calcifications that were "probably benign". Glad I had the stereotactic biopsy because it was not benign. Fortunate to have caught it early though.

  • Goincrzy8
    Goincrzy8 Member Posts: 79
    edited February 2017

    62

  • midwest_laura
    midwest_laura Member Posts: 114
    edited February 2017

    Dx at 47.  Found it myself.  Mammo confirmed.

  • Prue_pueng
    Prue_pueng Member Posts: 5
    edited April 2017

    Found lump at 35, 3 weeks before birthday

  • Jenmia2002
    Jenmia2002 Member Posts: 3
    edited April 2017

    34, found a lump doing my self breast exams. Had my GYN/Boss check it out. He thought probably a cyst since no family history and I'm young and healthy. Decided to recheck in 2 months. A week after that exam I decided to go ahead and get a diagnostic mammo which couldn't see the mass because of my dense breasts. But the imaging place said ultrasound next sense my lump was palpable and that's where they said Bi-Rad 4 Biopsy Recommended. Had biopsy next morning and found out I had breast cancer 4 days later.

  • Ruby3813
    Ruby3813 Member Posts: 27
    edited April 2017

    Annual mammogram 4 days after my 65th birthday.

  • siciliana
    siciliana Member Posts: 61
    edited April 2017

    Age 63.

  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 401
    edited April 2017

    I just found this thread. Add me to the glorious women who were diagnosed at 70!

    MJ

  • MTwoman
    MTwoman Member Posts: 228
    edited April 2017

    I was 38. Found a lump, the rest is history :)

  • ReneeBeanie
    ReneeBeanie Member Posts: 1
    edited April 2017

    51

  • Rubyluby
    Rubyluby Member Posts: 4
    edited April 2017

    42

  • letsgogolf
    letsgogolf Member Posts: 65
    edited April 2017

    10 days after 60th birthday via routine mammogram.