REMOVING A BREAST

Removing a Breast

NO MORE AMPUTATION

Removing a breast is not the only answer to breast cancer treatment as medical sciences are evolving…..

If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you no longer have to live without a breast. With a breakthrough medical innovation for treating the deadly C, a patient’s breasts are conserved instead of having to be removed.

Here is what the conservational method entails:

WHAT IS IT?

The conservational method is one of the most recent developments in breast cancer treatment.

The concept of breast conservation helps survivors psychologically too. After a mastectomy (or complete removal of breasts due to cancer), it is usually difficult for women to gather their interest for sex. The breast conservation method helps a woman feel herself after the surgery.

“The procedure is one initiated about 5-6 years ago. It involves retaining a women’s breast against the removal of it completely”, says an expert, Breast Cancer specialist.

A lot of researches have described the use of radiation therapy in the breast conservation method.

COST

An average of INR Rs.30, 000 to Rs.40, 000

NEEDED FOR RECOVERY

Since it is usually followed by radiation the recovery can take at least two months.

SIDE EFFECTS

The only side effect that the patient experiences are the skin of her breasts might get darkened or pigmented. Experts are explains, “To treat breast cancer the basic

Treatments still remain the same-surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. However, the newer drugs today are much better and effective”.

The survival rates of women, undergoing these therapies, have increased. Today, surviving or increasing the years of life via the newer drugs has changed for the better.

Depending on the type of cancer and on the doctor treating you, the three treatments can be done in the order that is believed to be best for you.

PREVENTIVE MEASURES

It is advisable for women to go for regular checkups to prevent breast cancer

In fact even women of a younger age who are genetically or otherwise prone to the cancer should start their checkups early.

Early detection is the best mantra to cure breast cancer.