FAQs

Nothing much you should change while on chemotherapy. However, patients do well if they eat well. There are really no restrictions. Its best to avoid roadside food and to take care of basic hygiene. Patients can continue doing their regular work and not be confined in their houses.

Normally a cancer is subdivided into 4 stages. But for practical purposes we divide them into three groups: local, locally advanced and advanced stage.

Cancer chemotherapy is now known for more than 100 years. Over time it has become safe in expert hands and have minimal side effects due to improved and advanced chemotherapy medicines.

Cancer treatment has 3 major treatment modalities: including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. Depending upon your cancer subtypes your oncologist suggests combining or using these modalities signally. New advanced therapies like Biological and targeted therapies are now being used with chemotherapy to treat cancer.

Only 10 percent of all breast cancer are hereditary. Less than 1 percent of all cancer subtypes are hereditary.

Cancer is an unlimited growth of abnormal cells in the body. These cells arise from normal tissues that fail to control growth.