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Women 30 - 49
Interview 06  

Interview 06

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 44
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. Had a lumpectomy and was given radiotherapy and Tamoxifen.


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Explains why she believes that stress might be involved in causing breast cancer.

 



Stress plays a part, I'm sure in my case that's played a part, because I've been a single parent for 12 years and everyone's lives are stressful, we've all got a certain amount, but it's quite a lot to bring up a family as a single parent.

I've been very much more fortunate than many in that, but it's just tiring and other stresses of life probably all combine, and maybe I had more factors than I realised.

And at the moment we don't really know what they all are. I think it can only be beneficial to cut down on the stresses that you can really. Don't take on things you can't deal with.

I do know quite a lot of women who, in fact I would say nearly all the women I met in hospital, had had some sort of trauma or difficulty.

I mean most people have had traumas in their life by the time they get to their mid-life, but there was a surprising number who'd had difficulties of one sort and another and they'd ended up with breast cancer.

Or they'd had a very unhappy time in one way and another. And I just personally think that that must all be relevant but it's probably difficult to say why.
Jenni Murray - Breast Cancer
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