Contents:
- Medical Video: Getting a Read on Breast Cancer
- The opportunity to recover from breast cancer is different for each patient
- Detecting cancer early increases the chances of recovering from breast cancer
- How to detect breast cancer
- 1. Consult a doctor
- 2. Self-examination
- 3. Perform interactive treatment
Medical Video: Getting a Read on Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is indeed the number one killer of women after cervical cancer. Therefore, many people ask, how big is the chance of recovering patients with breast cancer? Then, what are the factors that encourage healing of breast cancer patients? See the following explanation.
The opportunity to recover from breast cancer is different for each patient
Most people interpret breast cancer as a disease that gives the final verdict of life. This makes many patients feel like they have no hope of recovery. In fact, breast cancer patients have different cure rates based on age, health, and the number of hormone receptors in cancer cells. Thus, the chances of recovering from breast cancer can also vary based on the level of cancer that has already been suffered.
Based on data obtained from the American Cancer Society, in 5 years after being diagnosed, early-stage patients have the opportunity to live up to close to 100 percent, while in stage two has the opportunity to live around 90-80 percent, stage 3 has a life opportunity of 60-70 percent , and at the final stage life opportunities will be smaller, which is only 20-15 percent for five years.
Detecting cancer early increases the chances of recovering from breast cancer
In Indonesia, most breast cancer patients come to the doctor when they enter in an advanced stage, making the handling of cancer more difficult. Several factors that cause breast cancer patients in Indonesia to experience treatment delays and prevention are:
- Many patients are still lay and are not aware of the disease they suffer
- The stigma that having cancer has no hope for life makes many patients resign and choose not to take medication
- Afraid to do surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation so many people still believe in alternative medicine, herbalists, psychics or "smart people".
If this continues, then more and more women will be late in treatment. In fact, the earlier the breast cancer is detected, the greater the rate of cure. Because, some symptoms of breast cancer are sometimes difficult to feel. This makes no pain at the initial stage, so the patient is not aware of having breast cancer.
How to detect breast cancer
1. Consult a doctor
You can do early detection by checking your doctor. Later the doctor will recommend you to do an ultrasound test, mammography, or biopsy. When a doctor recommends a biopsy test, the doctor will usually advise you to undergo definitive therapy for a month to avoid spreading the tumor. The most important thing when didignosis has cancer, it's good that you do not do alternative medicine other than the doctor's recommendation.
2. Self-examination
You can also do a breast examination yourself. The best time to check your breasts is 7 to 10 days after menstruation is complete. Because at that time, the breast was feeling soft. The purpose of this routine breast self-examination is to feel and get to know the curves of the breast so that if a change occurs it can be immediately known.
3. Perform interactive treatment
In addition, according to practitioners Medic Radiaesthesia and Integrative Medicine, Dr. Paulus W Halim, quoted from the Kompas page, cancer therapy is not enough with drugs, surgery, or chemotherapy. However, patients need an integrative approach from the medical side and family to have the opportunity to recover. Because, integrative medicine views humans as a whole, not only paying attention to their physical body but also their lifestyle, nutrition, how to manage emotions, and how the patient thinks.
