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5-6 years since diagnosis
Interview OV17  

Interview OV17

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 52
Background: Retired special needs coordinator teacher; married; 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1998 following breathing and bladder problems, weight gain and bloating, and changed bowel habits. Treated by surgical removal of both ovaries and abdominal fluid, chemotherapy, then hysterectomy and further chemotherapy.


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Sought information and visited internet chat rooms where she could contact other women with ovarian cancer.

 



So did you seek out lots of information after your diagnosis, did you seek out lots of information for yourself?

Did I seek it out? Yes I did, in fact we hadn't got a computer, my husband went and bought a computer so that I could find out as much as possible. And in the middle of the night when you haven't had cancer for a long time, night time can be very dark, and it was a time when I also went in the chat rooms, I looked up information and I also went in the cancer chat rooms and talked to other people and found only one or two people with ovarian cancer but we did build up relationships and I was going to see one of them in New York and she died the month before I went, unfortunately, but, you know, we had a lot of quality time even in the chat room together.
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