I live in Bangalore, India. My Mom got diagnosed of Breast Cancer recently, 25th Oct. 2011 to be precise.
Since then it's been quite a trial for her and all of us in the family. I would like to share the details of the treatment that she has been undergoing and other experiences in general.
I hope this would be useful to many others battling the disease and looking for some info on treatment in Bangalore.
Besides I would be delighted and greatful if I get some suggestions that would help in Mom's recovery.
Mom started feeling some pain and heaviness in her left breast in late June, 4 months before the formal diagnoses. But she thought of it as muscle pain and applied some pain relieving gel/balm. The pain would subside briefly but came back and stayed. She felt giddiness also sometimes.
In late September she started to feel some hardness and lump formation which kept growing . In October when she came to bangalore (she keeps shuttling between Jodhpur and Bangalore) we went for a checkup to Apollo hospital on Bannerghatta road near IIM Bangalore.
The oncologist we showed was a medical oncologist who after checkup adviced us of a Mammogram and a FNAC to be done as she thoght the lump didn't look like something that can be ignored. She also referred us to a Surgical oncologist . The surgical oncologist also suggested us to get the tests done immediately to confirm whether it was malignant or not. Although I have a feeling he knew after clinical examination that the lump was malignant. Don't understand how.
The mammo and the FNAC cofirmed the malignancy.
Since then it's been quite a trial for her and all of us in the family. I would like to share the details of the treatment that she has been undergoing and other experiences in general.
I hope this would be useful to many others battling the disease and looking for some info on treatment in Bangalore.
Besides I would be delighted and greatful if I get some suggestions that would help in Mom's recovery.
Mom started feeling some pain and heaviness in her left breast in late June, 4 months before the formal diagnoses. But she thought of it as muscle pain and applied some pain relieving gel/balm. The pain would subside briefly but came back and stayed. She felt giddiness also sometimes.
In late September she started to feel some hardness and lump formation which kept growing . In October when she came to bangalore (she keeps shuttling between Jodhpur and Bangalore) we went for a checkup to Apollo hospital on Bannerghatta road near IIM Bangalore.
The oncologist we showed was a medical oncologist who after checkup adviced us of a Mammogram and a FNAC to be done as she thoght the lump didn't look like something that can be ignored. She also referred us to a Surgical oncologist . The surgical oncologist also suggested us to get the tests done immediately to confirm whether it was malignant or not. Although I have a feeling he knew after clinical examination that the lump was malignant. Don't understand how.
The mammo and the FNAC cofirmed the malignancy.
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