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View Poll Results: What was your age at diagnosis?
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Age 20-30
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6 |
2.33% |
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Age 30-40
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69 |
26.74% |
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Age 40-50
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105 |
40.70% |
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Age 50-60
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66 |
25.58% |
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Age 60-70
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10 |
3.88% |
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Age 70-up
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2 |
0.78% |
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06-10-2006, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Alaska
Posts: 2,018
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Age at Diagnosis
I'm curious to know whether the HER2 population is by and large younger than the wider group of all those with bc. I haven't posted a poll before here and I'm not sure if I will get it set up right... but... here goes...
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06-10-2006, 02:35 PM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Misty woods of WA State
Posts: 4,128
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I voted at the 40-50 age range, as I was 50. But was shortly after my birthday.
The range should be 51 to 60, etc.
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau
Live in the moment.
MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~
Found suspicious lump 9/2000
Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement
Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR -
Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds
36 rads - very little burning
3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum
Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED!
2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa
Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18
All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET
Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying
Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa
Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?)
2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava
2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec.
Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011
STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer
7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones
Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED
2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED.
Same news for 2016 and all of 2017.
Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.
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06-10-2006, 02:41 PM
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#3
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Alaska
Posts: 2,018
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ooops!
You're right, Steph! Sorry for the confusion... "we means well..."
A.A.
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06-10-2006, 05:01 PM
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#4
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 951
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I was diagnosed 2 weeks after I turned 50 and voted in the 50-60 range. I didn't know which one to select.
Barbara H.
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06-10-2006, 05:47 PM
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#5
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Concord, NC
Posts: 30
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Age At Diagnosis
Hi,
I was diagnosed 7 months after I had turned 50. I voted in the 50 - 60 group.
Turning "50" was not fun at all!
Susan
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06-10-2006, 06:09 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Norridgewock, Maine
Posts: 778
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I was diagnosed 2 months after my 54th birthday. I voted in the 50 to 60 group. Looks like I am in the most popular group!!! Sandy
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06-10-2006, 06:29 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: FLORIDA
Posts: 148
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I WAS DIAGNOSED 2 MONTHS AFTER I TURNED 41. I HADN'T FELT WELL FOR A FEW MONTHS BUT KEPT PUTTING OFF GOING TO THE DOCTOR.
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06-10-2006, 06:47 PM
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#8
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 198
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I was dx'd just after I turned 30...but the lump was there before 30..So I voted in the 20-30 range.
Tammy
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Dx'd Dec'01 while 6mos preg. with #4. child (30yrsold)Mastectomy/AC chemo/radiation/ Recur:Mar'04 liver mets: 3 taxol/herceptin /liver resection/3 taxol/herceptin. Cured?
Recur: May'05 spine & Hip. New onc
treatment in Mexico Feb'06-Mar-06
back to Mexico June/July '06
Currently on herceptin/Zometa/Femara-recently added navelbine
Switched to arimidex Nov'06
ovaries removed June '07
ca15-3 in May'06 was 102
ca15-3 summer of '07 holding steady at 23!
ca15-3 slowly rising Dec & Jan 36, 38, 41 and Feb was 36
Feb '08 Liver, lung & Brain scan NED... bones are stable with even a couple spots gone. as compared with '06 scans
May '08 ca 15-3 is 55. Treatment is zometa, vinorelbine, herceptin and aromasin.
No signifcant changes.
Feb'09 Started Xeloda with herceptin..no more hormonals
Feb'09-June'09 tumor markers coming down again from 155 to 84
May'09 blood clots in lungs vena cava filter put in..Heparin shots daily for now.
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06-10-2006, 08:20 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 823
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I was dx'd at 48, 5 months later I turned 49.
Vicki
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06-10-2006, 08:57 PM
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#10
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Posts: 438
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I was 49 when I was diagnosed.
Karen
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06-10-2006, 09:12 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Southern, CA
Posts: 2,511
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I was DX at 48...I will be 49 at the end this month. (June)
Chelee
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06-10-2006, 09:03 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Streetsboro, Ohio
Posts: 365
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I was dx. at age 35, 8 months after I gave birth to my 3rd and last child(girl). I had my first mamogram at age 30 because my mother died from breast cancer and I thought I needed to get a mamo. early. My insurance wasn't going to cover it, but I was dx. with fybrocystic breasts. My gyno. suggested I repeat the mamo. in one year. I became pregnant with my 2nd child(girl), nursed her for six months, and then had my mamo. Fybrocystic breast disease was the dx. Breast cancer is supposedly in the body 7-10 years before a lump can be felt. If this is the case for me then I had cancer that could not be dx. with mamograms. Blessings from Lu Ann.
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06-12-2006, 06:58 AM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Derbyshire, UK
Posts: 18
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I was diagnosed in July 2005, at age 29, after finding a lump in the June.
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06-12-2006, 07:28 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1
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I was DX at 39 - October 2005..... 6 weeks before my 40th birthday. My daughter was 25 months old.
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06-15-2006, 08:42 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: IOWA
Posts: 243
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I was diagnosed 2 months after my 52nd birthday. I found my lump on my 32nd wedding anniversary, I am now a 1 year survivor.
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06-15-2006, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Henderson, NE
Posts: 413
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I was 39. It looks like that's the most "popular" age
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06-15-2006, 11:56 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 8
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I was 49, found the lump myself; initial diagnosis - Stage IV/metastatic to liver & bones in May/05 - am also now a 1 year survivor!
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Janet
Initial Dx: April/05 - age 49
- Lumpectomy, 18/18 nodes +
ER/PR+, HER2+, Stage IV IDC
Extensive mets to bones & 4 lesions on liver
Tx: June/05 - Oct 31/05
- Taxotere, Herceptin & Pamidronate every 3 wks (8 rounds)
Nov/05 - present
- Tamoxifen + continuing Herceptin & Pamidronate every 3 wks
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06-16-2006, 04:46 AM
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#18
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 13
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I was 48 yrs 3 mths. Dr advised me I had breast cancer on 31st December 2004, Happy New Year!! 
Love and best wishes to all
Helen |
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07-26-2006, 10:13 AM
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Guest
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bringing this forward
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07-28-2006, 12:02 PM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Grand Terrace, Southern California
Posts: 114
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I was 26 with the lump. Diagnosis at the age 27.
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04/97- breast bx. diagnosis breast cancer.
05/97- radical mastectomy; 5cm tumor & 11 lymph nodes.
10/97- City of Hope, high dose chemotherapy.
11/97- 36 radiation therapy.
01/98- NED; tamoxifen.
02/02- breast reconstruction.
08/04- recurrence; mets to rt lung; thoracentesis; femara.
09/04- thoracentesis; ER/PR +, Her2+++.
10/04- total abdominal hysterectomy.
02/06- mets to 9th rib; monthly zometa; arimidex.
06/06- medi port insert; weekly herceptin.
10/06- 3 weeks herceptin treatment.
02/07- mets to liver; arimidex
11/07-liver clear
02/08-chemo taxol/herceptin weekly treatment
12/08-taxol not working
01/09-navelbine/herceptin weelky
03/09-navelbine not working
04/09-xeloda/tykerb
09/09-30 radation to neck; xeloda/tykerb not working
11/09-Gemzar/herceptin weekly
04/10-tykerb/herceptin weekly
06/10-cancer spread to left lung;stop treatment; tap
07/10-right lung collasps; TDM1
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