Early detection of breast cancer - Finding an ‘Indian solution to an Indian problem'

Raghu Ram P

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 Raghu Ram P^1,*

¹Director & Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, KIMS-USHALAKSHMI Centre for Breast Diseases, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, A.P., India

*Corresponding author: Dr. P. Raghu Ram, MS, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Glasg), FRCS (Irel), Director & Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, KIMS-USHALAKSHMI Centre for Breast Diseases, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, A.P., India. Email: p.raghuram@hotmail.com

Received 12 March 2014; Accepted 27 March 2014

Citation: Raghu Ram P (2014) Early detection of breast cancer - Finding an ‘Indian solution to an Indian problem’. J Med Sci Res 2(2):55-56. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-010   

Copyright: © 2014 Raghu Ram P. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

More than one million women worldwide are newly diagnosed with breast cancer annually. Worldwide, a woman dies of breast cancer every minute. In India well over 100, 000 women are newly diagnosed with breast cancer every year; a staggering number that has overtaken cervical cancer to become the leading cause for cancer related death among women in metropolitan cities. The number of newly diagnosed breast cancers in India is expected to increase to 130, 000 per annum by 2020. This is only the tip of the iceberg, as many breast cancers are not reported to the Cancer Registry & many states do not have a robust Cancer Registry.