Is There Hope For Breast Cancer Patients Without Surgery??: An Institutional Retrospective Disease Free Survival Study.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Recently incidence of carcinoma breast has increased many folds and surpassed cervical malignancy. Management of breast carcinoma has multi modality treatment. One or the other modality, sometimes surgery is not acceptable for patients due to many reasons. Material and method: In retrospective disease free survival study, a group of disease free patients were found who had refused for surgery and were treated by chemoradiotherapy alone. Results: Among the 25 patients, 17 patients (68%) were treated more than 10 years back, 5 patients (20%) 6 years back and 3 patients (12%) 2 years back. All these patients were disease free for above post treatment periods till april 2017. Conclusion: Hope should not be lost for those in whom surgery is not done, this method of alone chemoradiotherapy may also yield acceptable results in terms of survival, disease free survival and cosmetic effects in some patients.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Simrandeep Singh, Dr. Neeti Sharma, Dr. pramila kumari, Dr. Atul Verma, Dr. Praveen Kumar, Dr. Shankar Lal Jakhar, Dr. H. S. Kumar
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