Interview 42  

Interview 42

Age at Interview: 22
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 15
Background: Student nurse; single, no children.

Brief outline:Testicular cancer (teratoma) and secondary tumours diagnosed in 1994. Orchidectomy and 5 cycles of chemotherapy (each with 3 or 4 days in hospital and two weeks at home). In Feb. 1995 major surgery (left thoraco-abdominal retroperitoneal lymph node dissection) to remove a secondary tumour in the abdomen, near to the spine.


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Explains that having cancer made him think about his life and reassess what he wanted to do for a career.

 



I took the rest of my GCSEs the next year and got good results in all of them which was amazing considering I'd been predicted reasonably bad results before my GCSEs. Before I was ill I was predicted quite bad results and they didn't think I was intelligent enough to go on to do A levels and that sort of thing. And then what with the treatment and what I'd actually had it was, it made me think that may be I should be trying to make a bit more of my life really. So I worked hard for my GCSEs after that and got good grades. Went on to do A levels, did my A levels, worked for a couple of years and am now a student nurse. So I thought for a while what I wanted to do with my life and then thought about all the treatment and good work and support that I got from my nurses and so here I am, I'm training to be a nurse. So I've been invited by my consultant to may be go and work with him for a while in the wards down there, so yeah.

Jenni Murray - Cancer
Testicular cancer
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