A Case Report of Palliative Care in a Patient with Breast Cancer

Abstract

Vjollca Ndreu, Enkeleda Sinaj and Anila Sula

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed life-threatening cancer in women and the leading cause of cancer death among them worldwide [1-3]. Breast cancer is mainly diagnosed in early stages (90–95%), however 20–30% of these patients become metastatic and to this day incurable. Bone is the single most frequent site for metastases and is involved in about 70% of all metastatic patients [4-6]. Here we report the case of a 61-year-old female patient diagnosed with breast cancer with bone metastasis. Due to bone metastases, the lady has complains from the pain. Metastatic breast cancer can hardly be cured and is often treated by treatments with palliative intent to alleviate or prevent breast cancer-induced unpleasant symptoms and possibly prolong survival of the patient. Cancer�?�related pain is mostly managed using drug therapy. There is increasing recognition of the need for non�?�drug approaches and TENS may have a significant role to play. For softening the pain, it was recommended, to the lady, to have 2 sessions of 30 minutes each a day of TENS. TENS is a very efficient therapy for soothing the invasive pain.

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