Posted on: Feb 15, 2009 08:33PM - edited Feb 15, 2009 08:36PM by Times3
Posted on: Feb 15, 2009 08:33PM - edited Feb 15, 2009 08:36PM by Times3
Times3 wrote:
I am just curious to find out how old all of you were when first being dx'ed with BC (I don't need to know the year, I hate math so I wouldn't try to figure out how old you are now anyway). It just bothers me that they are still promoting waiting until you are 40 to get a mammo.
I was 29 when I was first dx with BC, 34 with loc reoccurance and 36 with Mets to liver. Good thing I didn't wait till I was 40!
My Onc suggests that my daughter get a mammo five years before I was dx'ed. She is almost 18 now! Also, I don't know if I have the BRCA gene or not, we are gettng ready to start that process but it scares me to know that I could have passed this to my daughter.
Mar 4, 2009 02:42AM Waldmeister001 wrote:
20 first DX
25 stage IV
Mar 4, 2009 07:13AM - edited Mar 4, 2009 07:14AM by lsmeenk
29, diagnosed with stage IV from the start. BRCA2+, mom had breast cancer a year and a half ago and is doing well!
Mar 4, 2009 08:06AM DeirdreJeanne wrote:
Diagnosed age 39. Stage III. No prior mamm.
Thankful for negative BRCA1-2 status. The recommendation for my daughter is to start screening at 10 years younger than my diagnosis age.
Mar 4, 2009 08:54AM KiminJax wrote:
I decided to look at this one again this morning and it is appalling that so many of us (majority) were dx'ed around lat 40 - 50. That is way too young. Even though we know that cancer doesn't really discriminate based on age, we need to learn what is permiating our lives now to cause onset of this disease so much earlier in just one or two generations. My grandma was in her 70's my mom late 60's, me at 47 and we know my daughter is braca2. It seems like there is more that we could do as an advocacy group than just running/walking for money. I don't have the answer but I'm not really sure we have the attention we need from the NIH, etc. Good luck to everyone in your jouney and thank goodness for this blog. Kim
Mar 4, 2009 11:24AM SuzCA wrote:
I am amazed and saddened to see so many 20, 30 and early 40 yo's. Nobody should get this nasty disease, but wow.
I was Dx'd at 47 stage 2. I had a three yo daughter at the time. After a series of complications I ended up with a tram flap on the left side three years later and uncovered a local reoccurance.
Mar 4, 2009 04:29PM 009Anna wrote:
I was 44
Mar 4, 2009 04:48PM mom_of_2 wrote:
40
Mar 4, 2009 07:15PM clanzillotta wrote:
52 original dx mets to bone
Mar 4, 2009 07:29PM - edited Jul 20, 2012 11:23PM by juliejfsrj
Mar 4, 2009 07:55PM navygirl wrote:
I was 42...it was only my second mamogram...they had pulled me back in for my first one for a second look but then said there was nothing to worry about...I guess that depends on who is doing the worrying? The cancer was in the same spot on the films as the first thing they saw.
