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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV36  

Interview OV36

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 54
Background: Retired headmistress, married, one grown up child.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1997 following abdominal pain, tiredness and bloating. Treated with bowel surgery then surgical removal of ovaries and womb, and chemotherapy. Recurrences treated with chemotherapy, accompanied by further bowel surgery.


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Had five courses of four different chemotherapy drugs because her cancer kept returning.

 



So you've had four or five lots of chemo now?

This is my fifth, yes.

And different drugs every time or have you alternated?

I had carboplatin, cisplatin, Taxol, and then last time I had Caelyx and I'm having that again this time. When I had it I understood again from the oncologist that you couldn't have more than a maximum of X number of mls of this drug, but whether again this is research that's changed things in a short time, because things do don't they. It's wonderful really how things improve. He's quite confident now that I will be able to have another six, obviously we'll monitor it as we go along, but another six doses of Caelyx. 

And I didn't lose my hair with Caelyx, and I was treated at home on that occasion which was, I didn't know you could have chemotherapy at home, well that was quite interesting, and I think that was the drug that's caused me personally the fewest number of unpleasant side effects. Although I understand its, it has an effect on your heart and not everybody can take it because the risk to the heart is greater than the benefits, you know, to the cancer.
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