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2-5 years since diagnosis
Interview OV25  

Interview OV25

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 58
Background: Retired nurse manager, married, one adult child.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2000 following breathlessness and abdominal bloating. Treated with chemotherapy then surgical removal of ovaries and womb and more chemotherapy. Subsequent lumps in armpit, leg and groin treated with further chemotherapy.


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Female
Describes the treatment she had for pleural effusions that made her breathless.

 



It was pleural effusions I had and they drain a certain amount and when they decide they're empty they take the drain out. But my pleura was filling up again all the time, and even the morning I came out of hospital they took the drains out that day. But what they did is they filled my pleura this last time with tetracycline, which is a sticky antibiotic, and they said it does tend to stick the pleura together to stop it filling up. But I don't think it's something they do very often because when I asked how long it would last nobody could tell me. And from that day I came out of hospital, touch wood, to this day, it's never happened again.  
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