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Women 50 - 69
Interview 01  

Interview 01

Age at Interview: 56
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 53
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. Had a lumpectomy and was given chemotherapy, radiotherapy, Tamoxifen, Arimidex and drugs for secondary cancer.


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Describes her uncertainties about the future after a diagnosis of secondary cancer.

 



Now the future, I'm not really sure what's going to happen. 

I've got another appointment at the hospital in another month's time just for a check-up to see how things are going.

The cancer that I've got in the bones is incurable.

You can understand that in a way because it's there, it's, they say it's going to be controlled and contained, but nobody will actually tell me, and I think that that's because they don't know, whether I'm going to be back to walking absolutely normally, or whether this is ultimately going to be a further problem and it's going to kill me.

I feel quite positive in some ways, because I do think that this Arimidex is definitely affecting me. I can feel in myself that it's easier, I'm walking easier, getting out of a chair much more easily, all sorts of things within myself.

I think everybody is different, what you've got and where you've got it is different, how you react to the treatment.

It's all, everybody is different, it's not like an engine where you just take a cog out and put one back in, is it? It's all very different.

So, I am concerned, I feel well but I don't know what's going to happen.
Jenni Murray - Breast Cancer
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