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Rosemary - Interview 48  

Rosemary - Interview 48

Age at Interview: 65
Background: Rosemary is married with four adult children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Rosemary has always attended for breast screening and had normal results. She has had several friends with breast cancer.

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Rosemary always attends for routine mammograms. She had some done privately, before she was eligible for free NHS screening, because friends of hers had had breast cancer.

 



I've never had any problem. I suppose I think I must have had a couple of mammograms I can't think why, and then got into the, over whatever age it is that you start having them. Fifty or fifty-five or something like that?

Fifty.

And that's all I've had.

So before the routine screening at fifty you had a couple of mammograms?

I think I do recall that, maybe that was because I have a lot of friends who've had breast cancer.

Yeah, did you have those mammograms privately?

Probably yes, I think so yes.

Right so you've been, you've been very aware?

Aware?

Because of the experiences of friends?

There was a time when I knew eleven people who had breast cancer.

All within a certain age group or?

Mostly my sort of age group, one was a young woman who died. The rest, apart from one, have all survived and are fine. But one of them died, but they were all of similar age to me. So maybe it was fear again that sent me to do something, I can't remember. I don't remember ever having any lumps or feelings like that, just concerns.
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