Breast Cancer Surgery Package "Can we pretend that the cost"

Breast Cancer Surgery Package "Can we pretend that the cost"

The diagnosis of breast cancer is hard enough without taking into account the direct and indirect costs associated with the treatment of breast cancer. Beating cancer is a priority of the patient, but often financial problems are not far behind. Most patients with breast cancer do not understand why the cost of the package for treating breast cancer can not be predetermined.

The answer is simple: the cost of breast cancer treatment can vary from Rs. 1Lac to Rs. 10 Lacs. Differentiation of the cost depends on the severity of the disease (early / locally advanced / metastatic) the nutritional status of the patient, a single body and the immune response, other diseases associated with organ (heart, lung, liver, kidney, diabetes, hypertension, etc.) fashion (n) is the required treatment and the most appropriate treatment plan in accordance with national and international guidelines for the assessment of the tumor recommended.

You have to consider the following scenarios.

Does the patient need surgery? If so,

Or just head / all breasts are stripped away?
If mastectomy followed by breast reconstruction?
What kind of breast reconstruction is preferred by the patient?
Be patient requires breast implants or not?

After surgery, the patient will have chemotherapy? If so,


What drugs are used?
If the patient has to be admitted for chemotherapy or day care hospital?


Costs will also recommend what kind of chemotherapy based on histological tumor depend. Some chemotherapy drugs must be imported and are very expensive.


The first line drugs may / may not produce a second / third line chemotherapy agents and targeted therapies are more expensive desired results.

Radiation therapy may be necessary / not to be. If necessary, it is the reason for a patient to reach the hospital OPD basis. If the patient requires another 6 weeks in the hospital bill will be. Depending on the type selected from the sickroom, the costs for different groups of rooms will be.


If patients have other diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension ,, asthma, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, liver disease, kidney dialysis, or other disease required the cost of repeated studies, medicines, disposable medical procedures, or minor surgical added cost of treatment.


Patients require surgery (with the exception of plastic surgery breast vegetate ulcers) with chemotherapy for stage IV breast cancer, but not long-term support required. If you do not respond to first-line drug in the second or third line drug is also trying to combat the disease.


In combination with chemotherapy is to edit / blood component therapy therapy, parenteral nutrition, treatment of fractures, etc. metastatic patient rehabilitation

In light of the foregoing, the patient should have a complete diagnostic of numerous studies confirm the cancer return; This is the organization of work to find out stages of the disease. After knowing phase of the disease and require treatment conditions can indeed give the estimated cost of the surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, supportive therapy, rehabilitation, etc.