A Breast cancer patient underwent a successful brain radiation therapy while positive for Covid-19. Taking a call after the patient tested positive just a day before therapy was supposed to start, doctors decided to go ahead with it as the 60-year-old’s condition was rapidly deteriorating and she needed urgent intervention. During the pandemic, many cancer patients have been affected by delayed treatment.

“The patient, Savitri ben was suffering from breast cancer that had spread to her brain and other parts of the body. The MRI showed a brain lesion that had caused swelling in the brain tissue that also caused the brain to shift. The brain tumour also led to weakness on the right side of her body with slurred speech and disorientation with regard to time and situation,” said Dr. Suresh Advani, consultant, Medical Oncology, Reliance Hospital, Navi Mumbai.