Deep Kaur 
“A woman’s body is a magic itself……it’s a complicated treasure inside out but still a splendid creation. It has a life of its own but, the magic lies where it can create another life within itself.”
Introduction:
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer after skin cancer. It not only occurs in females in fact, males also have some breast tissues, though breast cancer in males are recorded less.
Some early signs and symptoms to take seriously in order to detect breast cancer on time:
- When the skin near your breast feels thickened when touched or looks different than the surrounding skin.
- Flattened or inward turned nipples.
- Sudden change in the size and appearance of the breasts.
- Peeling, over drying or scaling on the skin of the breasts.
- The skin on the breast starts changing colour like- over pinkish or red, orange and darker than your natural skin tone.
Cause of breast cancer:
Though, the exact reason is still unknown and the researchers are still on the boat of discovering it, but there are some reasons defined by them that could risk or elevate cancer formation in a person. These include- lifestyle, eating habits, hormones, environment, clothing styles etc.
On common note, in any type of cancer, one thing that happens is the change in the DNA makeup of the cells. Usually a person’s DNA holds some instructions like, how and when the cells grow and in what numbers and also when they have to die.
When a person’s any part of the body gets cancer, his/her sorted set of instructions gets corrupted and the result comes out with overproduction of cells (called as cancer cells) and these cells live for more time interval than the other healthy cells of the body.
With time, these cancer cells group together and form a mass of cells–Tumour. The tumour then grows, invades and kills other healthy cells of the body. It starts to spread all over the body and then its growth is near impossible to stop and leads to death.
The spreading of cancer all over the body is called “Metastatic Cancer.”
Females are more prone to breast cancer than males.
How to fight breast cancer?
There are many preventive measures a person could take to reduce the risk of breast cancer like:
- Maintaining a healthy weight and body
- Practising healthy eating habits
- Avoiding items that has carcinogenic ingredients in them
- Opt for breast cancer screening or test time to time to detect
early cancer formation
- Drink alcohol in moderate amount
- By following a regular exercise routine
However, even after doing all the precautions and maintaining good health, many people still become prone to this deadly disease.
So, it is very important to know what to do and what could be the best method for you to save yourself from this disease.
One of the most convenient and promising method to get rid of cancer cells and tumours is “Oncoplastic Surgery”
What is oncoplastic surgery and how it helps the patients suffering from breast cancer?
It’s a surgical method that combines the traditional breast surgery methods with that of cosmetic surgery methods. The idea behind this is to get the benefits of both the methods together that we get from them individually also, to minimise the other unwanted effects of surgery and to remove the cancer smoothly.
In almost all the breast cancer cases, the patient on which surgery had been performed faces the issue of indifference in their breasts like- difference in the sizes of both the breasts, sagging of breasts, etc.
So, the doctors came with a brilliant solution i.e., performing a cosmetic plastic surgery right after performing a traditional surgical method of removing tumours.
In the cancer removal method, a surgeon will remove the tumour, a small amount of surrounding tissue, and possibly some of the nearby lymph nodes. This is called Lumpectomy.
Immediately after lumpectomy, a plastic surgeon performs a “bilateral breast reduction or lift” that makes both the breasts symmetrical. This process is
In extreme cases, sometimes surgeons even have to perform a Mastectomy. This surgical method involves completely removing the breast of a person and then reconstructing it. It is necessary to perform only in the patients with advanced stage cancer and it totally depends on the situation.
What are the benefits of oncoplastic surgery?
- The oncoplastic surgery is performed before the radiation therapy of cancer treatment. This reduces the chances of the wounds after the surgery to get exposed to the radiation.
- The whole process happens in only one session so, it’s time effective and also saves you from going through a tough process of surgery again and again.
- The traditional breast cancer treatment method used to leave the patients with asymmetrical breasts. Thus the situation was emotionally challenging and leads to insecurities in the patients while they are already suffering from cancer battle. So, the idea of performing a bilateral breast reduction and lifting helps the patients to get symmetrical breasts after the surgery.
- It can remove larger tissues and is beneficial to get rid of a great amount of cancer tissues.
In conclusion, Breast Oncoplasty is the best method for you to opt for when you come across a disease like breast cancer. We also advise you to take proper consultation from professionals before taking any step in your journey of fighting cancer.
