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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV06  

Interview OV06

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 35
Background: Complementary therapist; single; no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1991 following night sweats. Treated by surgical removal of the affected ovary followed by chemotherapy.


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She developed meningitis after chemotherapy damaged her immune system.

 



Yes, I was told that it was advisable for me to stop at that point, particularly in view of the fact that it was a very early stage ovarian cancer.  

So for my, for my particular case it was felt that the risks were now becoming too great.

So it wasn't that you had a bad reaction to it or anything like that?

Not physically but internally obviously it was depleting my immune system and it wasn't swinging back. With the chemotherapy the cells drop off and then they start to recover and that's why they give you monthly treatments and they give you time for the immune system to recover. But it probably doesn't recover to the same level. It is expected to drop down, but with mine it dropped down and didn't recover and dropped down even further and didn't recover, and carried on to the point where it was becoming dangerous or certainly not advisable as a treatment for a stage 1 cancer.  

And then I got meningitis, but that's another story and that was because my immune system was depleted from the chemotherapy treatment.  
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