DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i01.060

Pages: 337-344

Identification of obstacles and causes for delayed presentation of breast cancer patients is of paramount importance to reduce morbidity as well as mortality. The detailed interview and the statistical analyses lead us to point towards a stupendous lack of awareness encompassing the spectrum of Breast Cancer as a disease. Inflicted patients are failing to come forward as they are bound by several reasons provoking fear (OR – 0.07). Patients of low socioeconomic status seem to succumb to a whirlpool of alternative treatment options, unawareness and obscure higher care centres (OR – 0.19). Alternative treatment related delay (Homeopathy and/or Ayurveda) is significant (p value < 0.02) but can be controlled if focus is put on early, meticulous and urgent referrals from all primary care health care providers.