Types of Breast Cancer Treatments in India

With the growing age of women, they develop more chances of being caught by breast cancer. The number of breast cancer patients is just increasing day by day. This has become a second major cause of death among women after lung cancer. But the good news is that the advance treatments for breast cancer have just improved the survival rates. As per a report, it has been figured out that chances of dying because of breast cancer have reduced and now it is only 1 out of 38 women. In India itself, the technology is so advanced and effective that women with breast cancer can easily get treated.

When we talk about the treatment, there are various treatments that doctors recommend based on your test reports and the stage of cancer. Patients often get more than one type of treatment. Following are some of the treatments discussed-

1. Surgery- this is the foremost treatment that doctors go for because their only goal at this stage is to take out the entire tumor from the breast. It includes two types of surgeries lumpectomy (only the tumor and the tissues around it are removed and the breast remains intact) and mastectomy (the whole breast is removed). The breast cancer surgery cost in India is approximately 1 to 1.3 lakhs (including implants).
2. Chemotherapy- Chemotherapy for breast cancer is used to destroy the cancer cells. In this, drugs are directly infused into the veins of the patient through a needle or as pills. The chances of reoccurrence of cancer get reduced with chemotherapy. Patients who go for chemotherapy treatment have more chances to fight with the disease and live a quality life.
3. Hormonal Therapy- This treatment involves the use of hormones in it. in other words, hormones are added, removed or stopped from the further growth of cancer cells. Hormonal therapy involves two things. One is it lowers the number of estrogen hormones in the body, other is it blocks the actions performed by estrogen hormones on the breast cancer cells.
4. Radiation therapy- This treatment of breast cancer uses intense energy to destroy cancer cells. X rays, protons energy, and other energies are used as beams. This intense energy comes from the machine and directly aims at a precise point. Radiation therapy works for the destruction of genetic material which plays a key role in cell division and growth.
5. Biological Therapy-the biological therapy is used to build the immune system of the body and making the patient’s body ready to fight with the cancer cells and also to face the side effects of the treatments. So this treatment activates the immune system of the patient’s body.

These are the treatments available for breast cancer. The doctors after considering the test reports of the patients, often recommend them to go for more than one of these kinds of treatments. The breast cancer treatment cost in India can be in lakhs but at the same time, the results are positive and successful.