‘Breast cancer cases likely to rise by 26 p.c. by 2020’ – The Hindu. The Havard School of Public Health reveals that breast cancer cases are expected to rise by 26 per cent by the year 2020, particularly in developing countries. In all probability, it is likely to overtake cervical cancer as the most common […]
Author: Dr Suman Das
Oncologist by profession, Amatuer Photographer, Tennis enthusiast, Vizag Runner, Spartan Cyclist, Blogger Dil se and a Traveller
Fight against Cancer: Questions to ask your doctor on being diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Rama a 46 yr old female presented with breast lump. She was diagnosed to have Breast cancer. Rama had lots of apprehensions and queries but she really did not know what to ask and hence adding to her confusion. So I just decided to compile some pertinent questions that you need to ask […]
Call for cervical cancer awareness in Vizag
Call for cervical cancer awareness in Vizag For Radha, the monthly menstrual cycle was like a nightmare. The pain and excessive bleeding left her exhausted. However, she ignored it thinking that it was only due to the physical and mental strain she was going through. Recently when the problem became unbearable she consulted a doctor […]
Facts about Tobacco consumption in India
Tobacco use one of the major reasons for death in India. Here are some facts about Tobacco use in India and its effect. According to Tobacco Altas brought out by World lung foundation 390,000 hectares of land is used to grow tobacco.
Screening Mammography
1. What is Mammography? Mammography is the technique where low energy XRay is used to detect Breast Cancer. It Can be used for screening and also for diagnosis of breast cancer.
What questions to ask doctor about cancer?
When a person is affected by cancer the patient and relatives become very nervous and confused. They try to take thousands of opinions without knowing what they want to know from the various doctors they meet. In this post i have compiled few important questions that the patient need to ask the doctor after the […]
Radiotherapy: An Insight
Whenever our near and dear is affected by cancer and the doctor says that the patient needs radiotherapy we have lot of questions in our mind. In fact radiotherapy is a subject of medicine about which we don’t have much information. I am writing this post to educate my readers about the common questions about […]
Let’s take a pledge to prevent cancer: World Cancer Day February 4th.
On this day Feb 4th designated as world cancer day I request my readers to take a pledge and change their lifestyle which can help them against cancer.
Sudden Cardiac Death in Young: Can we save our kin?
Today morning my wife saw a notification in her face book from one of her college friends “ Hey I heard news that our best friend is no more do u have any information”. Seeing that we both had complete pause and a synchronous answer followed ….what……..? She was the best friend of my wife […]
Cancer Staging a Brief Guide
The most important question that a cancer patient and his care giver want to know is “What is the stage of cancer I have?” Basically a patient wants to know whether he’s disease is curable or not and he tries to correlate with the stage of the disease. For the benefit of the patient I […]