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2-5 years since diagnosis
Interview OV10  

Interview OV10

Age at Interview: 65
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 62
Background: Retired finance clerk; married; 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2000 following an abdominal ache. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb followed by chemotherapy.


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Got Ovacome's newsletter but didn't want to read the stories of women who hadn't survived, preferring positive information.

 



You mentioned to me earlier that you had the Ovacome newsletter. How did you find out about them?

That was in the hospital, the cancer section, there's a little section in there for people to wander in and you ask, you know, you say what your problem is and they point you into 'well perhaps you'd like to read this'. And I didn't subscribe to it I didn't, I don't have it every month or anything, I just collected it at the hospital and they would say 'well if you bring it back next time you come'. So I just read about various, people's various way they'd been diagnosed, how they'd been treated, but I didn't feel I needed to have it every week. Every month rather. So I just read it when I was at the hospital.  

Did you find that helpful?  

Bit frightening really because I was reading of people, that was talking of people that had died and, you know, had had it two or three years, and so I found it, you know, I didn't really want to go down that road, I wanted the positive things, which I found that I could do that myself. I didn't really want to know about people that hadn't survived, so yeah I was a bit cowardly that way.
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