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According to the World Health Organization, Breast Cancer is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in women and has become the leading cause of mortality amongst women globally. The incidence of breast cancer is rising sharply in developing countries due to changes in reproductive factors, increasing urbanization, adoption of western lifestyles, and increased life expectancy. Thirty percent of the breast cancers in India are in the second or third decade of life and they are resistant to the conventional mode of therapies.

This is one of the common struggles of being a cancer patient - inability to openly speak about ones illness and the fear, anxiety and depression that often accompany it. It was Padma's personal choice to come to see me for cancer counseling, without the knowledge of her family.

Activating the immune system for therapeutic benefit in cancer has emerged as one of the most promising developments in immunology and oncology. In the past few decades, scientists have been trying to manipulate the human immune system to attack cancer cells. It's called immune therapy (or immunotherapy) and it works by harnessing the body's own natural killing cells to kill tumours. Cancer Immunotherapy has become a key part of treatment for many different types of the cancer.

Breast cancer is the type of cancer that has a valid preventive strategy if we're talking about active prevention. There are about 1.38 million new cases and 458 000 deaths from breast cancer each year. Early diagnosis is a cornerstone for breast cancer care.

Healthcare has experienced a flood of partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions over the last decade as providers, payers/financers have looked to combine to perfume a trade or business, to protect the market share, and to exert a greater degree of control over the value stream. Most successful & effective partnership always have some of the key characteristics.

Many people who have cancer are rather interested in trying anything that can cure them out of this in one piece including complementary and alternative cancer therapies. Alternative cancer treatments can offer some feeling of control over cancer but many alternative cancer treatments are unproven and can be even dangerous. Alternative treatments may not play a direct role in curing cancer but they can help the patients cope up with signs and symptoms such as anxiety, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting and pain difficulty in sleeping and stress may be lessened by alternative cancer treatments.

Patients who are suffering from cancer receive Chemotherapy often suffer treatment side effects including fatigue, sleep disturbances, and other physical and mental side effects. Amongst all, Sleep disturbance is the most common symptoms which are experienced by cancer patients, occurs in approx. 80% of patients during chemotherapy, and results in hindering in quality of life. Several studies have researched the effectiveness of yoga, which includes breathing, postures, and/or meditation, in a population of patients with cancer.

In the healthcare system, the business days, as usual, are over. Around everywhere healthcare system is facing a tough time with rising costs and uneven quality despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policymakers have tried countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact.

Diagnosing Cancer at its earliest stages usually provides the most effective probability for a cure. The days - or even weeks - spent waiting for the results of a cancer-screening test can feel like perpetuity. Especially when the early diagnosis and treatment are tied to better outcomes. Now, a new technique to analyze proteins implemented on cancer cells shows promise in rapidly detecting these cell types.

In the middle of this transformative wave, from the past decade, seen hospitals shifting their care-delivery approach. Care approach has been shifted towards multidisciplinary and team-based approaches. From basic care of patients, hospitals have started focusing more on managing the overall health of the patients and looking at the continuum of care, besides simply focusing on episodic treatments.