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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV01  

Interview OV01

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 52
Background: Retired school & university librarian; married, 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1992 following abdominal pain. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb, and chemotherapy. Recurrences treated with further chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Bowel surgery needed to treat blockages.


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Was resigned to having no more treatment for her cancer recurrences.

 



I don't know now whether there is any more treatment I could have. I did ask at the clinic and she said “there were various things but we'd have to weigh it up against quality of life and what you've been through already”, and I strongly believe in quality of life. I've seen people who possibly are terrified of dying, who go to any lengths of treatment to keep themselves going, and I don't feel like that. 

I did feel a sort of responsibility towards my sister, and have had a talk with my local vicar about it, it's sort of the same as trying to stay alive for my son's wedding. But I realise I can't stay alive for everybody and everything, there's got be an end sometime. And so I'm going to be quite happy with what, if anything, they say when I go for another clinic. I think at the moment they are waiting for the CA125 to go rushing up, well I'm not sure from my previous experience that it's going to be like that.
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