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Breast Cancer Specialist in Pune | Breast Surgeon in Pune | Dr. Dumbre

Breast cancer is the most common of all kinds of cancers and is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide, accounting for >1.6% of deaths and case fatality rates are highest in low-resource countries. Recent research on breast cancer risk in India showed that 1 in 28 women develop breast cancer during her life. This is higher in urban areas being 1 in 22 in a lifetime compared to rural areas where this risk is relatively much lower being 1 in 60 women developing breast cancer in their lifetime. In India, the common age of the high-risk group in India is 43-46 years unlike in the west where women aged 53-57 years are more prone to breast cancer.

What is Breast Cancer?

Breast Cancer is one of the types of cancer that occurs from breast cells

There are many methods to treat breast cancer depends on their stages. Also, treatments are here we classified into two types:

1. Local Treatments: In that treatment, treats cancer affected cells without affecting other parts of the body. It includes:

a. Radiation Therapy.

Radiation therapy is also called radiotherapy. It is a cancer therapy that utilises high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors

b. Surgery.

In surgical cancer treatment, the surgeon removes the complete breast but does not remove lymph nodes and advanced radical mastectomy

 2. Systematic Treatments: In this treatment, Breast cancer can treat by using drugs which can be given directly into the bloodstream. Means drugs can reach cancer cells anywhere in the body. Treatments completely depend on types and levels of cancer. It involves

a. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer therapy that works one or more anti-cancer drugs as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. It may be given with healing intent, or it may try to increase life or to decrease symptoms.

b. Targeted therapy

Targeted therapy operates by targeting cancer’s particular proteins, genes, or the tissue atmosphere that contributes to cancer growth and survival.

c. Hormonal Therapy

Hormonal therapy is a procedure of treatments that blocks, adds,  or removes hormones to reduce or prevent the growth of cancer cells that require hormones to grow. Hormonal therapy is also termed as hormone withdrawal therapy,  or endocrine therapy or hormone manipulation.

Many women will get more than one method of treatments on their cancer. For better treatment on breast cancer meet Dr. Amol Dumbre is one of the leading Breast Cancer Surgeon in Pune. He has been practising in Pune as a surgical oncologist for the last ten years. He is the best breast cancer specialist in Pune and works as a senior cancer specialist at Noble Hospital and Ruby Hall Clinic. Both Hospitals are very popular and trustable. He has trained and done his research fellowship from the Tata Memorial Hospital. During this period he was trained extensively in many aspects of cancer surgery and was also involved in teaching programmes. He is the best Breast Surgeon in Pune who is also a fellow in Minimal access surgery.