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  • toria1212
    toria1212 Member Posts: 71
    edited April 2020

    56

  • VeeHow
    VeeHow Member Posts: 33
    edited April 2020

    I was diagnosed at 56 years old.

  • keywestfan
    keywestfan Member Posts: 367
    edited April 2020

    84

  • Susi-Q
    Susi-Q Member Posts: 8
    edited April 2020

    64

  • BCat40
    BCat40 Member Posts: 121
    edited April 2020

    40--after first ever mammogram :(

  • sportsmom25
    sportsmom25 Member Posts: 2
    edited May 2020

    I was 37.

  • jcp
    jcp Member Posts: 42
    edited May 2020

    ByFaith,

    Are you still on the hormone blocker?

    JCP

  • jcp
    jcp Member Posts: 42
    edited May 2020

    JCP 42 years old

  • jcp
    jcp Member Posts: 42
    edited May 2020

    ByFaith,

    Are you still taking Arimidex?

    Thank you,

    JCP

  • jcp
    jcp Member Posts: 42
    edited May 2020

    Malinda815,

    Hi from JCP. I will pray that you do very well with this. My mom had it for 19 years with 12 years mets .

    I wanted to ask you if you don't mind, how did you find out about the lungs being affected? My asthma dr

    had me do a chest xray and then referred me to a pulmonoloigist due to a calcified area in the hilar region.

    Pulmonologist said she needs to see it better and I have a CT of chest area Thursday at 3:30 pm/

    Thank you for any help.

    JCP

  • berries
    berries Member Posts: 80
    edited May 2020

    Best of luck with your upcoming test, jcp. I am thinking of you!

  • berries
    berries Member Posts: 80
    edited May 2020

    Diagnosed at 34 (2 weeks before my 35th birthday).

  • jcp
    jcp Member Posts: 42
    edited May 2020

    Thank you berries! I appreciate that. JCP

  • Mareny109
    Mareny109 Member Posts: 4
    edited June 2020

    50

  • dchouse
    dchouse Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2020

    I was 58

  • janiehs
    janiehs Member Posts: 36
    edited August 2020

    I was 65

  • Nor_Cal_TKD
    Nor_Cal_TKD Member Posts: 5
    edited August 2020

    It’s my first post — I don't know exactly where to begin or if this it’s in the right boardso I'll just start ... I am 51 and my cancer diagnosis date was 8/11/20. Invasive ductal carcinoma of the left beast. Lumpectomy on 7/29 was of a tumor deep at the chest wall, but a small tumor, and is a more uncomfortable healing process than I was prepared for. Also, two unresolved tumors (since January 2019) exist in the right breast that appear similar in construct as the left as best as I can decipher from the radiology reports. It has been difficult to find competent breast care in my region until fairly recently. Anyhow, I went back to work for the first time since Covid the next morning after the diagnosis and felt like my head was spinning in unreality. I'm a part-time teachers aid in a special ed classroom (no students yet, just the teachers and classified staff).

    I am also preparing for my sons wedding that is just over two weeks away. He is new in law enforcement and the stress over the last few months has been hard on all of us. This close to the wedding the stress is fever pitch!

    Also worth mentioning but difficult to write about is a complex mental health diagnosis I have that derives in large part from complex trauma: a domestic violence murder-suicide in 2016. I also was displaced from my 17 year career in educational administration in 2013. I underwent intensive outpatient mental health services and have been under psychiatric care since 2018.

    With the latest incidents In CA of widespread fire - smoke, destruction, loss of life and property I feel as though all is unraveling in life - never be the same again. I haven't spent adequate time studying/understanding my cancer diagnosis and next steps. I want it all to be a terrible mistake. I think my family is largely ignoring it as well, which is bittersweet for me. I can't imagine things will get easier as cancer treatment progresses; and I fear an outcome in which I literally am simply not strong enough mentally (or physically?) to survive.

  • robinorbit
    robinorbit Member Posts: 23
    edited September 2020

    55

  • kringle12
    kringle12 Member Posts: 14
    edited September 2020

    45

  • mountainlover
    mountainlover Member Posts: 59
    edited September 2020

    47

  • Micky110
    Micky110 Member Posts: 3
    edited October 2020

    67. Lumpectomy and 2 nodes.

  • Ivyskymax66
    Ivyskymax66 Member Posts: 5
    edited October 2020

    54 as well

  • lb13
    lb13 Member Posts: 48
    edited October 2020

    2 days after my 51st birthday.

  • keepfaith
    keepfaith Member Posts: 3
    edited October 2020

    Freya,

    Thank you for compiling the list.

  • KamaraKaye
    KamaraKaye Member Posts: 5
    edited October 2020

    44

  • maryjv
    maryjv Member Posts: 269
    edited October 2020

    Diagnosed at 34...

  • Reg44441
    Reg44441 Member Posts: 2
    edited October 2020

    I was 39 and really found out from a cyst( not related to my cancer)

  • Reg44441
    Reg44441 Member Posts: 2
    edited October 2020

    I was 39 and really found out from a cyst that was not related to my cancer!

  • abigailj
    abigailj Member Posts: 108
    edited October 2020

    62

  • brittandherboobs
    brittandherboobs Member Posts: 26
    edited October 2020

    I was 26, genetic testingshowed nothing to explain why it happened, no family history