Women, Don’t Become a Statistic: Two Tests That Could Save Your Life
Dr. Kanika Sharma,Medical Oncologist at Sohana Hospital, Mohali You may be the person who keeps everything running smoothly. You manage your home, meet deadlines at work, care for aging parents, help children with their homework, remember every birthday in the family, and make sure everyone else is taken care of. Yet in the middle of all these responsibilities, your own health often slips to the bottom of the priority list. But here is the difficult truth I have learned after more than a decade as a medical oncologist in India: cancer does not pause for your responsibilities. It does not wait until your children grow older or until life becomes less demanding. Every week, I meet women who tell me the same thing: “I was planning to get checked, but something more urgent came up.” What many of them realize too late is that nothing is more important than protecting your life. Today, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in India. At th...