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  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,743
    edited February 2019

    Welcome Marymoo24 and fancynancy1955, and thank you for chiming in. We welcome you both warmly here.

  • Mymomsgirl
    Mymomsgirl Member Posts: 95
    edited February 2019

    I was 47, a couple of months younger than my mom when she was diagnosed.

  • Pommom1809
    Pommom1809 Member Posts: 161
    edited February 2019

    This past September at the age of 70.

  • Sea1951
    Sea1951 Member Posts: 1
    edited May 2019

    i was diagnosed with bc in april of this year. I have had a port placed and a Lumpectomy scheduled June 27. Chemo and radiation to follow.

    I am 68. Guess I can be the granny of you all.



  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,743
    edited May 2019

    Welcome, Sea1951! We're so sorry you find yourself here, but we hope you find this to be a place of support as you begin down this road. People of all ages and all walks of life are welcomed here, and the diversity among our members is part of what makes this community great :) we wish you the best with your upcoming lumpectomy!

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  • mavericksmom
    mavericksmom Member Posts: 1,275
    edited May 2019

    I was 49

  • SIMSAgreen
    SIMSAgreen Member Posts: 17
    edited June 2019

    Officially dx @ 36, though my first abnormal mammo was at age 35. They found a "lymph node" they wanted to watch... It wasn't a lymph node after all. :/

  • meeko1452
    meeko1452 Member Posts: 10
    edited June 2019

    47 at diagnosis for me. I turned 48 waiting for my MX.

  • gussy
    gussy Member Posts: 77
    edited June 2019

    I was 78 when I was diagnosed although BS thinks it had been there for as much as 10 years. Couldn't be seen on mammo due to moderately dense breasts. Now 80 and doing fine so far.

  • Mymomsgirl
    Mymomsgirl Member Posts: 95
    edited June 2019

    I was 47, soon to be 48. I had a biopsy at 45 that can back benign, interestingly enough my BS said it has probably been there 2 years. I got the impression that when she looked at my pathology report from 2 years earlier that something in there might have suggested precancerous cells.

  • josephineanne
    josephineanne Member Posts: 1
    edited June 2019

    I was 56

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,743
    edited June 2019

    Welcome, JosephineAnne! We're sorry you find yourself here, but we hope you find support within this community!

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  • beaglelove
    beaglelove Member Posts: 8
    edited June 2019

    63 2 months before turning 64)

  • hodgepodge
    hodgepodge Member Posts: 15
    edited June 2019

    I was 35 the first time and 49 this (hopefully LAST!) time.

  • IAmACat
    IAmACat Member Posts: 43
    edited June 2019

    35. Diagnosed 2 months after getting engaged, then got married shortly before mastectomy while my breast was still intact for the wedding dress. 

  • AMLMom
    AMLMom Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2019

    I was 45. I was being screened every six months due to some suspicious lesions found in my ‘good’ breast a few years prior during routine Mammo. Somehow it didn’t show up during those screening until it was quite large

  • enjoyevrymoment
    enjoyevrymoment Member Posts: 239
    edited July 2019

    Age 56 just 2 months before my 57th birthday, found on mammogram.

  • ItsHandled444
    ItsHandled444 Member Posts: 41
    edited July 2019

    57, 1 month before my 58th birthday...

  • GenX
    GenX Member Posts: 15
    edited July 2019

    43 at dx

  • debrac
    debrac Member Posts: 63
    edited July 2019

    55, one month before I turned 56

  • super52
    super52 Member Posts: 61
    edited July 2019

    I was 51, about 3 months before my 52nd birthday and significantly older than my sister's age at the time of her diagnosis. She was 35, about 3 months before her 36th birthday.

    In September of 2013, when I was 46, I received the dreaded call back for a diagnostic mammogram, but I was given the all clear. I can't help but wonder now if what they originally saw back then was the beginning of my cancer because the diagnostic one was a spot compression in the same area where both of my cancerous areas were discovered. I was told my cancer was caught early, but who knows how long it really was there?

  • Togethertolearn
    Togethertolearn Member Posts: 224
    edited July 2019

    45, April 2019

  • Kjchico
    Kjchico Member Posts: 21
    edited July 2019

    6

  • LD1960
    LD1960 Member Posts: 1
    edited July 2019

    58

  • Christine1975
    Christine1975 Member Posts: 23
    edited July 2019

    I was 43.

  • ryansawyer
    ryansawyer Member Posts: 1
    edited July 2019

    38 dxd June 26, 2019

  • 98hgmom
    98hgmom Member Posts: 8
    edited July 2019

    I was diagnosed at age 52. I have four older sisters and a mother all without breast cancer. How did I get so lucky

  • OnTarget
    OnTarget Member Posts: 124
    edited August 2019

    42, it was my first mammogram.

  • Alexb31
    Alexb31 Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2019

    33 years old, almost 5 years ago in 2014.

  • sweetp6217
    sweetp6217 Member Posts: 120
    edited August 2019

    55

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