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, […]
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 […]
My young colleague’s husband has started his career as a Surgical Oncologist and has started feeling the pressure of external ‘expectations’ His idealism is intact and he wants to offer his services with utmost integrity, empathy and skill. However, the world of touts and middlemen, take it upon themselves to paint a bleak future for […]
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 […]
Four years hence and five Breast fellows later, I am a happy soul. We are a super charged unit, sharing professionally, egging each other on, holding hands when the chips are down, laughing and enjoying our small successes, sharing our joys and sorrows alike, completing each other with each ones strengths, learning from each other […]
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 […]
