Breast cancer patient delivers baby boy
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 21 2022: Babina Speciality Hospital (American Oncology Institute), Imphal has successfully treated a pregnant woman suffering from breast cancer.

The woman has safely delivered a baby boy this month and both the baby and the mother are healthy and fine now.

Narrating about the feat, Ba-bi ia Speciality Hospital's medical oncologist Dr (Brig) Anil Kumar Dhar told media persons that breast cancer cases in the country have increased nowadays but this type of cancer is not fatal if detected and treated on time.

It is necessary for women to either go for regular check-up or self-examine to ascertain whether they have breast cancer or not, he said, adding the genetic testing can be done to confirm whether a woman can have breast cancer or not before suffering from the disease and this would help in taking precautionary treatment.

Breast cancer generally starts developing after 40 years and hence women above 40 years may undergo screening at Babina Speciality Hospital, which now has all the treatment facilities, he added.

According to Dr Dhar, he was delighted when the woman who married late and unsure of having baby or not got pregnant but a lump was detected in her breast at four months of pregnancy and it was confirmed as breast cancer soon.

The woman was operated at a hospital but needed chemotherapy for the developing tumour after completing the operation.

If this was not done, it would be dangerous for both the baby in the womb and the pregnant woman, he added.

The woman was referred to medical oncology of the institute and the department shouldered its responsibility and successfully conducted chemotherapy treatment for both the baby inside the womb and the woman and ultimately able to control the cancer after four cycles of chemotherapy.

The woman then delivered a healthy baby boy in the second week of January and thus doctors and nurses of the institute managed to save lives of both the baby and the mother, Dr (Brig) Anil Kumar Dhar said and expressed happiness over saving lives of the mother and the child.

However, the woman is advised against breast feeding the child as she is still undergoing chemotherapy, he added.

Dr Dhar further said that breast cancer patients come regularly at the institute and his department alone is undergoing treatment of around 40/50 patients and most of them are natives of the state, He also said that breast cancer generally develops due to changing lifestyles like smoking, liquor consumption, obesity, red meat consumption, lack of exercise, genetic factor and free style nature of married women not wanting to have baby and hence women should take utmost precautions to prevent breast cancer.

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