Don't neglect health after surgery over 50 percent breast cancer patients after they go through surgery. Owing to this, Nepal does not have exact figures of the mortality rate due to breast cancer, doctors said here Feb 26, 2008.

"Without being in touch with the patient continuously for five years after surgery, it is not possible to say how many woman die of breast cancer," said Dr Prakash Sayami, while speaking at five day training on Breast Cancer Screening at Teaching Hospital of Kathmandu. Even after surgery, cancer can recure.

He also said that if the Breast Cancer diagnosed in the primary stages, 50 percent of  patients can be saved. He said his analysis of the cases dealt with by hospitils shows that the trand of women visiting hospital for treatment in same among women is rural and urban parts of the country.

Making her preventation at the program organized by Department of Surgery. Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and Rural Women Unity and Development Centre Nepal. Dr Benu Lohani of the hospital said mammography, a special kind of x-ray, would be best for women above the age of 40 to detect breast cancer in the early stages.

For women between the age of 40 to 59, mammography needs to be done once in years, and for women above 50 it needs to be done annually. Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and B.P. Koirala Bharatpur Cancer Hospital have this facility which costs Rs.550.

Similarly, Dr Y.P. Singh said that a study of 700 women who received services from Tribhuvan University teaching Hospital shows that 60 percent of the cases were below the age of 50, while 40 percent were above 50. However, this is exactly, the opposite compared to cases in developed countries. In development countries, bresat cancer is the commonest caner affecting women.