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  • schoolcounselor
    schoolcounselor Posts: 229
    edited January 2014

    AZ you make a good point about how cancer ages us!!!

  • Piano-girl
    Piano-girl Posts: 14
    edited January 2014

    47 - clear mammogram (with clip highlighting stupid area!) 6 months prior, family history but negative for BCRA1 and 2, extremely dense breast tissue which I have since learned gives me a risk increase equal to family history

  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Posts: 925
    edited January 2014

    32 at diagnosis. Now I am 37. 

  • kimber_1616
    kimber_1616 Posts: 17
    edited February 2014

    40 and I am 43 now

    My mom was 38 and Grandma (maternal) was 74


  • Rubiayat
    Rubiayat Posts: 17
    edited February 2014

    41 and the cancer was discovered from my first mammogram.

  • redlessi
    redlessi Posts: 1
    edited February 2014


     

    51 Diagnosed after routine mammo and boy does this suck.

     

  • lgkgde13
    lgkgde13 Posts: 10
    edited February 2014

    39...Gyn felt something and said it was prob nothing but sent me for mammogram and US anyway...went to have it done and lump she felt was cyst but another lump was discovered on ultrasound that was ILC 

  • Ottisse
    Ottisse Posts: 1
    edited February 2014

    I was 65.

  • Nan54
    Nan54 Posts: 14
    edited February 2014

    37 - no real family history, none of the "risk factors." I feel too young to feel this old.

  • LizzieK
    LizzieK Posts: 7
    edited February 2014

    62, This is my second cancer, first one was throat cancer three years ago.  Starting radiation on Feb 18th.

  • in_cognito
    in_cognito Posts: 87
    edited February 2014

    37

  • navybratjill
    navybratjill Posts: 2
    edited February 2014

    44

  • Brwneyedgirl
    Brwneyedgirl Posts: 70
    edited February 2014

    56

  • gia444
    gia444 Posts: 8
    edited February 2014

    I was 71

  • DocBabs
    DocBabs Posts: 54
    edited February 2014

    67....am now  almost 70 and feeling really good!!

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Posts: 14,084
    edited February 2014

    1st BC DX, I was 41. 2nd primary (other breast), I was 57

  • QuirkyGirl
    QuirkyGirl Posts: 67
    edited February 2014

    45.  My grandfather's sister died of BC but I didn't know it until my diagnosis.

  • AndreaJ50
    AndreaJ50 Posts: 704
    edited February 2014

    I was diagnosed at 50.

  • trsmith26789
    trsmith26789 Posts: 1
    edited February 2014

    39

  • iamnancy
    iamnancy Posts: 641
    edited February 2014

    62

  • shorfi
    shorfi Posts: 437
    edited February 2014

    49 my first time and 59 (new primary in the opposite breast) the second time. And also wanted to mention that my MO said my prognosis was excellent!!!

  • Wilsie2
    Wilsie2 Posts: 240
    edited February 2014

    52 first time, recurrence at 67

  • Lonaka
    Lonaka Posts: 2
    edited February 2014

    I am 62 and just diagnosed.

  • lemon68
    lemon68 Posts: 301
    edited February 2014

    So sorry your here Lonaka, well wishes to you.

    I was 44.

  • cookie2009
    cookie2009 Posts: 10
    edited February 2014

    hi I was 58.

    Going for a ultrasound tomorrow.

    Nervous.

    Can anyone advise?

  • schoolcounselor
    schoolcounselor Posts: 229
    edited February 2014

    I was 44. Hang in there cookie. Is the ultrasound just routine?

  • tangandchris
    tangandchris Posts: 934
    edited February 2014


    39 years old here....dx'd in OCT, turned 40 in JAN.

  • Kitty62
    Kitty62 Posts: 9
    edited February 2014

    I was diagnosed December Friday The 13th, no less, of 2013. A date I will sadly never forget. I was almost 52. 

  • Lonaka
    Lonaka Posts: 2
    edited March 2014

    I am 62. 

  • Windwalker
    Windwalker Posts: 9
    edited March 2014

    just diagnosed. Age 40