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Article: No one told me that my breast cancer treatment would leave me needing two new hips; Pain-free: Jenni Murray after her 'brave' double hip op.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2008
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Byline: JENNI MURRAY
AFTER a mastectomy and months of gruelling chemotherapy, Radio 4 presenter Jenni Murray had hoped her health worries were behind her.
Then, earlier this year, she developed crippling pain in her legs. A scan revealed that the bone at the top of each leg had died off. This is a sideeffect of chemotherapy, but, as Jenni explains, not one that many people know about . .
THE pain began with shocking suddenness on January 1 this year, five months after my final chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer and just as I was starting to look forward to feeling truly well again.
I remember the time clearly because it was as I ...