Interview 39  

Interview 39

Age at Interview: 68
Background: A retired secretary. Married with 3 adult children.

Brief outline:Attended for first routine mammogram around age 50. Didn't attend again. Had breast indentation at age 63. Was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and had treatment.


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She'd been screened once but decided not to go again. Some years later she noticed an indentation in her breast.

 



Well as far as I can remember, I think it must go back twelve years, because I went for a mammogram at the National Health place, and I found it extremely painful. And I was bent double when I came out. So I said I'm not going to have another one, which should have been every three years, and I didn't go for it. And then of course I realised afterwards, well a few years I'd missed, obviously, and I found this indent in the breast, a breast indentation, whatever you call it. 

I saw my GP. She referred me to the surgeon and it was a few weeks wait, and then I decided to go privately to a consultant, which I did, and he operated the next week.

Jenni Murray - Cancer
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