Breast cancer is a major health issue, being the most common cancer in women both in India and globally. It's also a leading ...

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Breast Cancer Care and Importance of Early Breast Cancer Detection | Dr. Vivek Agarwala

[Music] St stun breasts or whatever may we call they are an important part of human body my mother has them my wife has them my daughter will have them in future and even your wives your mothers and and your family members friends they all have why are we so scared or so ashamed of talking about them because of this taboo that is associated with breasts we must understand that we are not diagnosing diseases of the breast early and I'm talking about the cancers of the breast breast cancer is the most common cancer which is affecting women in India and world and it is the most common cause of cancer related death in women all around the world including India in India the problem is that we are detecting breast canc cancer upfront in stage three or stage 4 in nearly 50% of cases while in the west stage three stage four breast cancer is detected only in 10% patients 90% of breast cancers are detected in stage one or stage two and why is this happening because in India our women they are afraid of talking about the problems in the breast they don't come forward and say that they are having some lump in the breast or they are having some lump uh in the axela OR there is some wound in the breast there's some discharge in the breast so let us all pledge that from tomorrow we will talk to our family members about the breast we will make sure that there is no taboo associated with breast we tell them that you examine the breasts yourself and see if there is any problem my name is Dr VI agarwala I am the director of medical oncology and himat oncology at narana Health Kolkata and we at Nar super Speciality Hospital Kolkata and at arent tagar hospital Hospital Kolkata have together taken this pink fight to fight against breast cancer and I want you all to come and join us in our ping fight to make sure that we fight against this breast cancer by detecting the breast cancer as early as possible if detected in stage one or stage two The Cure rates are as high as 80% and even if your breast surgery is done there are wonderful reconstruction techniques and they are wonderful uh you know implants available so that your breasts and your Womanhood can be maintained but if you're detecting in stage three or stage four The Cure rate goes very down in stage four breast cancer is not curable and we can achieve good results we can achieve good cure rate only if we are detecting the breast cancer early so that's why we must all ensure that we won't be afraid or scared to talk to our family members about their breasts we won't feel ashamed and we will ask them confidently that if their breasts are fine or not whether they are examining it or not and if there is any problem we should take them to the nearest oncologist so that breast cancer can be diagnosed as early as possible in the earliest stage the Cure rates are very high and in this way only we can reduce the breast cancer related deaths thank [Music] you

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