Poll - How old were you when dx with BC
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31 Stage 4 from beginning.
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46 yrs old. 1 mo before my birthday. My sister was also 46 when she was dx
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43 stage 3 8 pos nodes
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Initial dx, day before my 31st birthday. Bone mets, age 36.
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Initial dx 29 yrs old, stage IV dx 31 mets to lung
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63
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63
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51
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44....17 days before my 45th bday.
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28 at first dx of stage II
39 at second dx of stage I and then bone mets stage IV0 -
I was 32-years-old when I was diagnosed with Stage IV from the start. I soon learned I had a BRCA2 genetic mutation.
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4
49
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51
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50 at diagnosis.
I had been getting callbacks for the same spot on my mammograms for over ten years (different facilities) and each time was told it was nothing or a ridge or a very fibrous area. After my diagnosis, the radiologist looked at one of the mammograms and said he couldn't believe that no one did a biopsy. However, I do believe that something happened in the year or so before diagnosis to turn whatever it was into fast-growing very high KI-67 IDC (& DCIS). I'd been through several years of extraordinary stress prior to diagnosis. (And ate at lot of soy protein bars that last year, blah blah blah) I hate myself for not insisting on a biopsy -- so many of you have been smart & assertive enough to demand biopsies. It never crossed my mind. Probably would have been just DCIS if daignosed much earlier.
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44
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32
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47 stage 1a
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36....BMX, IDC, Stage IIa, Grade 3, 1/13 nodes, triple positive. Was tested for BRCA1 & 2, came back negative! I was dx after I went in for a routine physical and told the doc my right nipple had been itchy for a little while. She was not too concerened, but sent me for a mammo and they found cancer on the left. NOTHING on the right! Every doctor I saw told me how lucky I was that I didn't wait until 40 to have a mammo. My new slogan has been..."Thank God for an itchy nipple!" I went through 18 weeks of TCH, am now in remission, still doing herceptin and started tamoxifen for the next 5 years! Thanks for starting this thread. It is interesting to see the age range. I agree we should not have to wait until 40!
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Someone mentioned a 10 year old with breast cancer and my local wig salon told me about another 10 year old nearby...
Someone else mentioned a four year old...
http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/109493/4yearold_survives_breast_cancer
Makes me wonder, how are these cancers found in little girls? They're certainly not doing self exams. Maybe the lumps are visible from the surface? My precious eight year old daughter is adopted, but I look at her and think about how I would like her entire body examined yearly, but don't want to scare her. Maybe I could get her used to it at least a breast ultrasound... "You're ten now and it's time for your annual breast ultrasound." Does anyone else have these kind of anxious thoughts about their really young children?
Edited to say: ok, just found one of the answers to my questions. Her mom noticed a pea-size lump. She was actually diagnosed when she was TWO with a rare form of juvenile breast cancer? Juvenile breast cancer? That certainly puts mine at age 50 into a different perspective. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41161182/ns/today-today_health/t/meet-toddler-who-survived-breast-cancer/#.T6U_5-1uH8s
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Age 26, prekids, second diagnosis age 47 stage 4 with mets!
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Aged 47 Stage 0
Aged 48 Stage 1a
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2 months after I turned 50 - although I had a benign biopsy at age 46 which got lumpier as the years went by - none of my mammos caught anything - I just had a bad feeling & finally insisted on another biopsy - OOOPS! Stage IIIC...!
Julie
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I was 31, I am a BRCA2 carrier.
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age 57 one month later after my son moving to USA ... am egyptian ... i have never felt any pain in my breast and i have skipped a couple of years mammo .. i regret that .. dont know yet which stage i am ... wish me luck ,,, am praying for each of you
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31
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I was 36
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34
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Stage 1 - 35
Stage IV - 37
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stage IIIb at 37
Stage IV mets to bone 40
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42 (Nov 2011) - Stage IV - Lump, lymph nodes, liver, lungs, spine and right hip.
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