Interview 27

Age at Interview: 21

Sex: Female

Age at Diagnosis: 16

Background: Student; living away from home. She is engaged to be married. British. Says that her experience of cancer has made her a more determine and stronger person.

Brief outline:In October 2000 she was diagnosed with a Ewing's sarcoma and had an operation to remove her shoulder blade, followed by physiotherapy. Chemotherapy before and after surgery. In remission.

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So I went home and a few days later I had a letter actually from my Consultant saying about fertility treatment, saying that I was gonna be infertile so I had this option of going up to [place] and having ovarian tissue frozen for when I wanted to think about having children so I decided to have that done, I mean I was only sixteen at the time but I knew I wanted to have children in the future so I decided to have it [sniffs] and then when I got back from [place] I went straight into hospital, had my central line put in and I think it was a day or two later I started my Chemotherapy and.

Can I ask you something can you tell me about your fertility treatment? What did it involve? Can you explain it in detail?

I had keyhole surgery and they it's quite a new treatment that's only just come out and I had slices of my ovarian tissue taken and frozen [sniffs] but they said that as it stands at the moment the chances of having children after having this treatment is not very high because it's only a new treatment and so far there's only been two women in the world that have ever had children from it so I was only in there for about two days and the operation was really quick.

And they do it under general anaesthetic?

Yeah.