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My mother-in-law, now 93, developed breast cancer at age 43 and had a radical mastectomy. If she had not been screened, she would never have lived to such an advanced age in such good health.
Please continue to urge screenings starting at age 40, not 50.

I was detected with breast cancer last year when I was 63. I was operated on and given radiation because it was found so early with a mammogram. That's when I started thinking of all the younger women having to go through everything I went through except they had to go through chemotherapy also. I am thankful that I didn't have to do this, and I am sure the only reason they had to was because they were detected too late. I was told for years that my two first cousins who died of breast cancer was not part of the genetic line up, grandmother, mother or sister. I had the Braca test done a few years ago because my new OBG didn't believe that. The test came back negative so you can only imagine how shocked I was when my mammogram and biopsy came back positive. I believe that EVERY women aged 40 (or even younger if it runs in the family) should have a mammogram to detect early breast cancer.
It will save their life!!

I am a 59-year old adopted female without a medical history. I have two daughters and a granddaughter. I have been receiving mammograms since the age of 33 in order to establish a baseline and create my own history. For women like me early mammograms may not only save our lives but the lives of our female family members.

Definitely at least 40 not 50. At 38, with no family history of breast cancer, I felt a lump. My mammogram showed nothing as I had dense breast tissue. I had no children. Despite my OB/GYN's opinion that it was nothing, I demanded to see a breast surgeon who sent me immediately for an ultrasound. I was diagnosed with Stage 2B Breast Cancer that invaded 5 lymph nodes. At 38, specialists foresaw a 50/50 chance of recurrence of my cancer. I had a mastectomy, tram flap reconstruction and participated in a stem cell clinical trial, along with chemo and radiation. I listened my body and not my OB/GYN, and am now a 21-year breast cancer survivor. Mammograms promote early detection, survival and protect women from advanced stages of cancer. It's an essential preventative measure. I would push for 30-35 not 50.

I was diagnosed with stage 1 Breast cancer 2 months after my 49th birthday! Waiting to get a screen until I was 50 could've meant the difference between stage 1 and stage 2! This is appalling to hear the government and big business want to delay early screening which is the key to beating this disease!!

I managed the breast cancer program for the Vietnamese Asian in Orange County from 2009-2016. I witnessed the fact women need to have mammogram at age 40 saving individual life because of breast cancer early detection!

Hello,

I look forward to better healthcare for women and I appreciate the work you are doing towards that effect.

My left breast implant was leaking at age 42. Before the plastic surgeon would take out the implant, and also the silicone that was in my breast tissue out, she required me to get a mammogram. The radiologist saw something suspicious on the mammogram, and I was sent to a breast cancer specialist. During the biopsy surgery, the Cancer doctor removed the suspicious looking lump, and also a smaller one directly under it that didn’t show up on the imaging. When the results came back, the small lump that had shown up on imaging turned out to be a calcium deposit. The smaller lump under the calcium deposit turned out to be “pre-cancerous cells of what would have turned into an an aggressive form of breast cancer.” I was 42 years old. I am 55 now, and still have yearly checkups with that same breast cancer specialist. WOMEN NEED TO START GETTING YEARLY MAMMOGRAMS AT AGE 40.

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I know 3women who but breast cancer before the age of 50. I ask that you add my name to the petition to make the guidelines start at 40 years old instead of 50 years old. Thank you for your consideration.

I was diagnosed w/ Stage 2 invasive. infiltrating, ductal carcinoma of the the left breast when i was 31 years old. Treatment - partial mastectomy w/ chemotherapy and radiation. That was 29 years ago. Waiting til 50 for first mammograms is irresponsible. it is proven that women are getting breast cancer earlier and earlier. A friend of mine was not allowed by insurance to receive a mammogram until age 50. By then it was much to late. She lost her battle at the age of 51. Women must be allowed to receive mammograms and imaging by age 40 or if family history, like my daughter when the medical doctors deem it necessary. Although my story is unique in that it was found in my thirties, There was no lump to be felt as it was in the very back of the breast wall. There are countless women out there who too cannot feel the lump, like my friend, that would be alive today if they were screened at the age of 40.

I do not have a personal story. I just do not support Mammograms starting at age 50 when this disease is so strong in woman so much younger. My best friend died at age 33 from cancer. Another friend was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. Starting mammograms at age 50 is unacceptable!!

I am a strong believer in beginning early. I have an aunt who died of breast cancer and believe that if her insurance approved earlier exams, her life may have been prolonged with proper diagnosis and treatment.

My mom was diagnosed before 40 and had a lumpectomy. One of my dear friends passed at 40 last year from breast cancer. We need to be able to chose getting our mammograms younger because even people with no family history can be diagnosed under 40.

I have a family memeber who was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 27 yrs old. Has had a double masectomy and is still not able to have children yet. without early detection she may not be alive today.
My sister is the charge Nurse on a cancer floor at a local hospital she believes we should start all cancer screenigs at a much younger age than we currently do.

Too many people have a breast cancer risk at 40 to change the mammogram criteria to 50

At 39 I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. With surgery, aggressive chemo and radiation I was cancer free for 8 years. In the summer of 2016 I was 49 when I was diagnosed with a different type of breast cancer.