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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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#1
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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, 09:03 PM
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#11
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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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06-10-2006, 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, 09:56 PM
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#13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 39
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Was told by my doctor two days before my 37th birthday.
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06-10-2006, 10:01 PM
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#14
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Oregon
Posts: 1,756
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Diagnosed 1 month before my 46th birthday.
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06-10-2006, 11:14 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 722
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Linda was 50
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Primary care-giver to and advocate for Linda, who passed away April 27, 2006.
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06-11-2006, 03:41 AM
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#16
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Hilton Head Island, SC
Posts: 279
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Mine was found 4 months before my 49th birthday. Though if the radiologist had been more careful it would have been discovered earlier. My 5.3cm tumor was "missed"...
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06-11-2006, 08:26 AM
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#17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Utah
Posts: 52
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I was diagnosed in Feb 2005 at age 39.
Amy
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06-11-2006, 09:31 AM
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#18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: (Hill Country) Texas
Posts: 72
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Mine was dx at age 46, 3 months before my 47th birthday.
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Jackie
Stage II, Grade 2, DX 4-05
EP +, HER2 +++,
1 node+, 1.6cm
46 yrs. old at time of dx.
Completed Chemo 11-05
Completed 1 yr. Herceptin 8-06
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06-11-2006, 09:38 AM
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#19
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 16
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I was 44 when I was diagnosed 7/04.My son was 20 months old.
Diana
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06-11-2006, 09:58 AM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 215
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survey
diagnosed at the ripe old age of 65, Jeanette
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