Result and outcome of shorter fractionation schedule for post-operative cancer breast patients

Abstract

Breast Cancer is the most prevalent cancer of women worldwide. Worldwide breast cancer incidence accounts for approximately 25% of all cancers diagnosed in women and almost 15% of all cancer deaths. It is one of the most common malignancies in the Western world and has the highest incidence in North America. The estimated incidence of cancer in India is 1.2 million cases and prevalence is about two million cases. About 25% increases is expected by the year 2015. 1 There is an increasing trend in rates of breast cancer in the urban population of the country (Yeole & Kurkute. 2003); 2 (Satyanarayana and Asthana, 2008). 3 The breast cancer risk varies with age groups; for example, the risk from birth to 39 years is 1:229 (0.44%),