Physiological Problems and Quality of life of Patients with Breast cancer: A Review
P Mohan Kumar1*and J V Jason Jebasingh21Department of Biomedical Engineering, PSNA College of Engineering and Tech., Dindigul, India 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Alpha College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Abstract: Breast cancer is not only the second most prevalent type of cancer, but also most frequent cause of cancer deaths in women. Breast cancer is a steroid hormone dependent tumor. In worldwide breast cancer considered to be the important and prevalent cancer among women. The disease itself may have an impact on the patient’s psychological well-being and quality of life. Breast cancer patients with depression during treatment are found to have poorer health related quality of life. Still a lot of differences were observed between depression and treatment type. In this paper breast cancer related physiological problems, treatment processes and quality of life based on these processes are reviewed. Result: After thorough review of various works and observation of studies it is concluded that the screening practices of breast cancer is still low and Patient health related quality of life should be improved.
Keywords: Chemotherapy; QOL; Breast cancer; Receptors Back to TOC