Breast Cancer Recurrence : Breast cancer means breast cancer- The most common cancer in women worldwide is. According to WHO, in the year 2020, 685,000 people died of this cancer all over the world. The recovery rate from this cancer is 66%. There is even more danger, after treatment, it should return again.

Tahira Kashyap, wife of actor Ayushmann Khurrana (Ayushmann Khurrana), is again struggling with breast cancer. On Monday, he gave information about this while sharing an emotional post on Instagram. He told that after 7 years, he has got breast cancer again. In 2018, he defeated the disease for the first time. In such a situation, the question arises how the last breast cancer returns.

Why is breast cancer again

Defeating breast cancer is no less than winning a war. But many times this battle does not end completely even after the end of the war, because after a few years the same breast cancer can return again. Health experts say that when breast cancer is treated with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, some cancer cells in the body can still be saved at microscopic level. These cells remain calm for some time and can later become active again. It has to emerge ‘Recurrency’ in the medical term.

There are three types of recurrance

1. Local Recurrence – To come back to the same place where cancer was first occurred.

2. Regional Recurrence – Spread cancer again in adjacent lymph nodes or tissue.

3. Distant Recurrence- When the cancer reaches the lungs, liver, bones or brain.

When is the risk of recurrance more

In many research, the risk of breast cancer is the highest in the first 2 to 5 years. But in some cases, recurnce has been seen even after 10 years. There is a need to be careful in such a situation.

What are the reasons

The stage and grades of cancer were so serious earlier.

Hormone receptor status

Gene mutations like BRCA1 or BRCA2

Half-incomplete treatment or therapy

Lifestyle factors such as obesity, smoking, alcohol

Long -term weak immunity

Do not have breast cancer again, what to do

1. According to experts, it is important to complete the treatment, whether there are side effects, do not give up.

2. Keep getting regular follow-up checkups. Get it done once or twice a year.

3. Healthy Diet, Regular Exercise and Stress Management

4. Keep an eye on the symptoms, do not ignore chest lumps, pain, fatigue, weight loss.