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Age 60-69
Interview 17  

Interview 17

Age at Interview: 69
Background: An Independent advocate for quality in research and healthcare, and writer. Widowed with 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Attended for routine breast screening. Abnormality on mammogram led to excision biopsy. DCIS was discovered. Chooses not to attend for screening mammograms.


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Discusses why she will have no more screening after her DCIS diagnosis.

 



Bearing in mind that most breast cancers are found by the women themselves anyway, and bearing in mind that I know a thing or two now, what is the window of opportunity for finding something that might be significant? I prefer to take a more sort of sane and balanced view about going and looking for trouble. 

So either I will or I won't, if I get a recurrence, find it in sufficient time. It depends upon the sort of cancer I may or may not get. It might be a tiny, aggressive one, which will be curtains anyway so what good would a screening have done? It might be another ductal carcinoma in situ, which will take another 30 years to get anywhere significant so, bearing in mind how old I am [laughing] does that matter?  I think not. 

So, and my philosophy is today is the day that matters. You know, be reasonably sensible about what's life but don't go looking for trouble and don't think you can guard against all the uncertainties and quirks that are going to go and flip you round the ear because I'll probably die of double pneumonia or something when it comes to it (laughs). 
Jenni Murray - Cancer
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