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5-6 years since diagnosis
Interview OV31  

Interview OV31

Age at Interview: 44
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 38
Background: Civil servant, married, no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1997 in the course of infertility treatment. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb followed by chemotherapy.


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Attended a 'look good, feel better' beauty session to counteract the effects of chemotherapy.

 



And we were actually treated to things like hand massages, we had a day where some of the cosmetic companies put on a 'Look good, feel better' initiative and we were all brought together round a table to be given a little treat of make-up and how to make yourself look better when you had no hair, no eyebrows or eyelashes, and your cheeks were out to here with anti sickness drugs. And we had a bit of a laugh and something like that is great as well because it, I think certainly for females it helps if you can try and make yourself feel a little bit more confident, and I think may be we can do that with make-up where men can't, and maybe that helps to give us back our self esteem a little bit.  
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