BREAST CANCER

Arindam: - Hello viewers, you are watching your favorite show ‘Wine with Arindam’ in Royal Bengal Tiger TV (RBTV) channel. Today, we have invited a special woman. If I tell you her name, then you will start dreaming about a ‘Saawariya’ or ‘Masakali’ girl. But, to avoid any confusion, let me clarify, that in our show, we have invited Sonam Kapoor, but this Sonam Kapoor is not the Bollywood actress. She is one of the best neurologists cum gynecologists and a good socialist too. At present, she takes care of all the critical patients of the Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital. Dr. Sonam, welcome to this show.

Dr. Sonam: - Thanks a lot, Arindam. I think that you should have invited the daughter of Anil Kapoor too. She would have given you some nice treatment, ha ha ha… Every day or the other, I find you commenting on her profile in facebook.

Arindam: - Well, just forget it madam. That profile of Sonam Kapoor is a fake profile and that is why I also sometimes make weird comments there. Why don’t you take a sip of red wine? Cheers. I hope that as a doctor, you will not start giving lectures to me that alcohol drinking is injurious to health.

Dr. Sonam:- Not at all, many people are unaware of the fact that a human body requires at least 150 ml of alcohol a week to remain fit and healthy. The red wine has less content of alcohol in comparison to beers and whisky. So, you can have red wine, not an issue, dear.

Arindam: - Accha, madam, already you are having a good reputation in the medical field as a specialist doctor. Recently, you have cured 2 patients, who were suffering from breast cancer. Now, today in this show, if you can tell us something about breast cancer, then I think it will be of great help for our viewers.

Dr. Sonam: - Arindam, first of all, let me make it very clear to you as a doctor that Cancer is a disease, which can never be cured completely. It can be partially cured and a patient can only prevent his/her early death, but ultimately that patient has to die very soon. Now, what is a breast cancer? It is a disease that hampers the proper functioning of your breast. It may happen that the passage from which the milk comes to the nipple totally gets corrupted, or the nipples are not functioning properly.

Arindam: - I can understand that this topic is very weird. As a man, I am asking these questions to a woman, please don’t mind, Dr. Sonam. Now, what are the symptoms of breast cancer?

Dr. Sonam: - Hey Arindam, I am doctor first and then I am a woman. A doctor and patient cannot by shy to each other; then no diseases can be cured. Ok, there is no such fixed symptom for breast cancer. The best thing is to always go for a regular check-up of your breasts to a doctor, after 21 years of age. Sometimes, the size of the breasts looks very odd. The nipple become too much brownish in color and becomes hard, with no sensation at all. Sometimes, the breast becomes too hardy in nature. When you press it, you will feel as if that the breast has lost its softness.

Arindam: - But, madam, I have heard that a patient having breast cancer suffers from too much pain in their breast. Is it true?

Dr. Sonam: - Oho, that happens at the later stages. At the initial stages, the patient will not feel the pain.

Arindam: - Many patients goes for biopsy, and they are of the opinion that after biopsy, they can live for other 2 or 3 years.

Dr. Sonam:- There are many therapies like Ultrasonography, Chemotherapy, etc. and biopsy also falls under these categories, but believe me, after biopsy, a patient becomes too much dependant on medicine and at the later stage, the patient suffers from more pain than the earlier one. So, it is better not to go for biopsy. Still now, there is no such treatment available, which can completely cure breast cancer. The only thing I will say that today’s women should have a balanced diet as well as good exercise to prevent this disease.

Arindam: - Does sexual performance causes breast cancer? I have also heard that in USA, men also suffer from breast cancer.

Dr. Sonam: - Sex has no part to play here, but, yes, for a woman, if she had a menstruation before 11 years and menopause after 55 years, then it creates a problem. Yes, in USA, men also suffer.

Arindam: - Thanks a lot, Dr. Sonam for your information in this episode. Viewers, see you later. Good Bye.