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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV11  

Interview OV11

Age at Interview: 59
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 50
Background: Medical Receptionist; married; no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1994 following acute abdominal pain. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb followed by chemotherapy.


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Did not change her diet or exercise regimens because her lifestyle had always been healthy.

 



Have you considered any changes to your lifestyle, your diet, exercise, that kind of thing?

Well no because I feel as though I've had a healthy diet, I'm a vegetarian anyway, which I'd been for a number of years before the operation. I'd not smoked, well for quite a few years, I mean I'd smoked until I was about 20, but for 30 years I hadn't smoked, I only drink socially, and I feel as though I have got quite a healthy lifestyle anyway. I look after myself, I'd always eaten the right food, well my parents had always insisted I eat the right food (laughing). I'd been brought up healthily and I had always been very fit; I've always exercised, I walk. So I didn't see, really, that there were any major changes that I could make.
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