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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV32  

Interview OV32

Age at Interview: 66
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 56
Background: Retired teacher, single, no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1994 following tiredness, pain, nausea and vomiting. Treated with bowel surgery then chemotherapy. Recurrence treated by chemotherapy prior to surgical removal of ovaries and womb. Second recurrence treated by more chemotherapy.


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Attended art therapy sessions to help her to unwind.

 



I go to art therapy, art therapy is a tremendous help and we find few people sort of come forward to that. I don't know if they're afraid of it, they think they can't draw or something, which is not what it's about, but it is wonderfully releasing and relaxing, and I've got a huge file of work upstairs. And that's one of things that has helped me possibly most because if I'm really uptight or if I've had huge doses of steroids, which sometimes has happened and I'm wired up, then the art therapy helps because I can get out the pastels or the paints and I can actually work on something and it defuses that feeling.  
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