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Age 31-38
Interview CC16  

Interview CC16

Age at Interview: 34
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 32
Background: Housewife; cohabiting, 1 child.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. Miscarriage during time of tests and investigations. Radical hysterectomy and 28 lymph nodes removed.


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Describes how losing her fertility because of her hysterectomy has led to her feeling less of a woman.

 



They do say that some women don't feel like women anymore after having a hysterectomy. It didn't enter my head at the time, it really didn't. It has done since. It doesn't make me feel less like a lady, or like dressing up and putting make-up on and things like that, but in the sense that no other man would ever want me if my relationship didn't work out because I can't have children, then that makes me less of a woman and Iwouldn't feel I had anything to offer to a man at all. So my self confidence in that sense has gone but that has been a progressive thing, it wasn't there at the beginning.
Jenni Murray - Cancer
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