Oncotype Dx – Predicts how likely6 cancer comes back or not.

The test gives a score, known as a Recurrence Score, from 0 to 100. 

The higher the score, the more likely breast cancer is to come back and the more likely you are to benefit from having chemotherapy as well as hormone therapy. 

Your specialist will use the score, along with other information about your breast cancer, to help decide whether chemotherapy would benefit you.5

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Breast Tuberculosis

Dr. Saroj K. Suwal, OncoSurgery Department, BCH  People generally come the hospital with complain of breast lump over  thinking that they have carcinoma of breast but it’s not always true and while investigation is done for breast screening, tubercular breast is also encountered. Breast Tuberculosis is one of the rare types of tuberculosis all over the world. In Western Communities, it is found as less than 0.1 % but in the developing countries the incidence increases as other different types of tuberculosis. In context of Nepal also , the breast tuberculosis is diagnosed increasingly day by day as comparison to past days It might be due the misdiagnosis as Breast cancer and abscess as they appear similar symptoms and findings Atypical Mycobacterium Verfaillie is found to be dominant in breast tuberculosis. 

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