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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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Had regular blood transfusions for her anaemia.

 



And why do you need the transfusions now?

Well we think that it's the tumour that's bleeding and in fact it's, in a way, encouraging that it isn't happening as often as it did before, that I'm still not back to that stage that I was last year before I had the Taxol treatment, 'cos at that, at that point, no, before I had the bypass I was having to have it every 4-5 weeks, which was pretty frequent, and now I'm having it sort of 9, at 9 week intervals, something like that.

And as measured yesterday, again it, the haemoglobin wasn't terribly low. The first time we were actually on holiday and I don't know how I somehow got around. My husband didn't want me to go to clinic because he didn't want the holiday to be cancelled, but when I got back the oncologist took one look at me and he said 'You look awfully pale'. It got down to 6.5 whereas a normal reading is 10 plus, and I sort of felt peculiar and I thought 'Well maybe this is how it's going to be from now on in' not realising that it was, you know, acute anaemia.  
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