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Interview 36  

Interview 36

Age at Interview: 48
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 45
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. Under went a lumpectomy and was given radiotherapy and Zoladex.


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Discusses why she switched from tamoxifen to Zoladex.

 



I was on tamoxifen for about four months. They didn't agree with me. So now I have a Zoladex injection every 28 days in my stomach. I get that off the nurse at my doctors'. And as far as that's, three years down the line there's been no return.

Yes.You said you'd had some side effects with the tamoxifen. What kind of side effects were these?

I put on a lot of weight. I was having these, well I still take them, the hot flushes but I call them hot sweats, where the sweat just pours out of you. I still take them a bit, I don't take them as bad.

And I was having stomach cramps. And so they took, took me off them and they gave me this injection, Zoladex.

I think it's just something similar, just a white ball is injected into your stomach. And that takes 28 days to go through your system.
Jenni Murray - Breast Cancer
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