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Age 39-44
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Interview CC09
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She describes why she used visualisation techniques during her radiotherapy treatment.
Diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1996. External Radiotherapy (22 sessions) followed by Internal Radiotherapy (30 hours).
Cancer
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Cervical Cancer
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Age 30 & under
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Interview CC15
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Describes how she feels happier than before she had cancer.
Diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer with spread towards stomach and bladder in 2000. Radio-chemotherapy (chemotherapy- cisplatin given one day a week) followed by Internal Radiotherapy (21 hours).
Cancer
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Cervical Cancer
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Age 30 & under
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Interview CC14
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She advises talking to friends and from her own experience a bad prognosis can work out to be more positive than it seems at the beginning.
Diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer and given a poor chance of survival in 1992. External Radiotherapy followed by Internal Radiotherapy.
Cancer
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Cervical Cancer
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Age 31-38
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Interview CC16
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She suggests positive thinking, believing the diagnosis that doctors give and recognising that people do survive cancer.
Diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. Miscarriage during time of tests and investigations. Radical hysterectomy and 28 lymph nodes removed.
Cancer
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Cervical Cancer
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Age 31-38
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Interview CC17
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One year after treatment she copes with fears of recurrence by thinking positively.
Diagnosed with cervical cancer (Stage 2 squamous cell) in 2001. Wertheim's hysterectomy. External Radiotherapy six weeks after her hysterectomy because cancer cells had escaped from one lymph node.
Cancer
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Cervical Cancer
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Age 31-38
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Interview CC18
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Having cancer gave her a different perspective and made her more assertive though in most ways her life was unchanged.
Diagnosed with early stage cervical cancer in 1998. Undergoing fertility investigations at time of diagnosis. Radical Trachelectomy (first women in her region to have a Radical Trachelectomy).
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