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Aged 51-60
Interview LC01  

Interview LC01

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 55
Background: Director of undergraduate programmes, divorced, 2 children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer April 2002, followed by chemotherapy, and then lobectomy. In October 2002 metastases in the brain, treated with radiotherapy (died in February 2003).


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Female
Recalls that her veins became hard and uncomfortable during chemotherapy.

 



I was sick, and more depressed, and there came a point when I was almost phobic about it because my veins all started to go hard and things and it was horrible. However not so horrible that I would have stopped it, you know I was happy, I was going to continue to do it because I felt it was such a dramatic thing that was happening to me it must be doing something. And in fact when I sort of bounced back each time physically and everything everybody was saying "You look fantastic, you look better than you've ever looked”, and you know you, and I did I felt, I felt good when I was good in the good bits.

So there were positive things but it was the physical sticking the needles in that got to me in the end and these hard, hard veins. But I wouldn't put anybody off doing it if, I mean I think you just know yourself; some people couldn't continue it. Other people that were there with exactly the same thing it didn't seem to bother them at all, just completely sailed through it. So I think it's, it is to do with your body and yeah it must be that.
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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