Six years ago, I underwent surgery for my spine. Before it materialised, I had lived with pain for almost 16 months. The pain would come on every time I got up from bed or from a chair and it would be only after a few deep breaths that I could walk. If I wanted to […]
Champions Farmhouse Event Sunday dawned bright and sunny yet pleasant as the Champions trooped to a beautiful farmhouse at Chattarpur to have a fabulous time in each other’s company. FUN was the buzzword… Singing and dancing, Cricket, Kite flying, block building, painting or just basking in the sun! Thank you Manisha Kumar, Sushila Kasana Jainer, […]
In this episode of Max Healthcare’s “Stories of Courage” podcast, we share the powerful story of Mrs. Babita Rawat, a music teacher and Breast Cancer survivor who faced a difficult diagnosis while expecting her baby. She made the brave decision to deliver her baby prematurely and began her battle against cancer with the support of […]
ART OF COOKING Curtains were brought down on a month-long Breast Cancer Awareness campaign at Max Vaishali, in exemplary fashion. You would have been witness to several cookery shows but this event surely surpassed any that I have witnessed in the past. There were 9 teams with 4 participants each and they were all Champions, […]
I am often asked why does breast cancer happen? And the only honest answer I come up with is ‘I don’t know. There are risk factors but there is no absolute association of breast cancer with these risk factors! Not a very confidence inspiring answer but that is the reality. The truth is that in […]
We have been waiting for this day for almost two years. Breast Support Group meetings used to happen every month before COVID struck and since then, we had no choice but to migrate to the Zoom mode. We adapted well but nothing like an -in-& person meeting. The Champions came back to enliven our space […]
A memorable day unfolded on a splendid sunny morning on the lawns of a magnanimous host at Chattarpur, on Sunday. The guests were special too as they are our Champions who have braved the stormy weather inflicted on them by a chance encounter with breast cancer. Doctors and staff of Max Institute Of Cancer Care […]
Yesterday, I got a call at 7.00 in the morning. It was from a city about a 100 kilometers from Delhi. The gentleman at the other end, in a panic stricken voice was saying that his mother who had undergone a breast removal surgery for a right breast cancer a week ago, had a bout […]
She is only 23 years but her wisdom belies her age. When I interacted with her for the first time, my mask hid my that-is-not-at-all fair expression well…she was telling me all about her disease, her research project, her fiancé, her mother who had dealt with breast cancer and was fine and so on. She […]
WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE THEIR CHOICES………….. I see a lot of lady patients in my practice since I deal with breast cancer and other breast-related conditions all the time. What has struck me as the rule rather than the exception, is that women don’t have a complete say in matters dealing with not […]
SURGERY FOR BREAST CANCER IS NOT ABOUT REMOVING BREASTS, ALWAYS… When 32-year-old Neena, an HR consultant in an MNC, walked into my clinic, accompanied by her husband and parents, I could sense an air of hopelessness surrounding this good looking young lady. The papers that were laid in front of me carried a needle biopsy […]
