Awareness of Physical Therapy Rehabilitation among Pre and Post Surgical Breast Cancer Patients – A Survey

Background:
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and also
the primary cause of mortality due to cancer in females
all around the globe. There is a huge difference in breast
cancer survival rates worldwide, with an estimated 5
year survival of 80% in developed countries and below
40 % in developing countries. Physical therapy
Rehabilitation is effective and safe in the management of
pre and post surgical breast cancer
patients.Physiotherapy intervention empower patients in
the management of their symptoms, side effects of
treatment or recovery from surgery. Pre Surgical
Physiotherapy Management is equally important that of
the Post Surgical Physiotherapy Management.With the
increasing number of females diagnosed with breast
cancer and surviving it, quality of life outcomes are
increasing in importance with numerous studies
supporting physical activity and its positive impact. It is
important to aware patients about physical therapy
techniques and its effects to voluntary participate in
rehabilitation, it creates lot of difference in the quality of
life of cancer patients.Aim :
To Study the Awareness of Physical Therapy
Rehabilitation among Pre and Post Surgical Breast
Cancer Patients.The study involves 370 females diagnosed cases of
Breast cancer which includes 185 pre and post surgical
breast patients respectively.They voluntarily
participated in the study by answering a structured
questionnaire. Approval were taken from the Oncologist
for collecting the patients data from their hospitals, in
persons well as telephonically, these questionnaire was
collected through google forms and Social media (Gmail
and Whatsapp links) around Pune (India).Conclusion :
The pre and post surgical breast cancer patients
both were less aware of the physical therapy
rehabilitation in breast cancer.They did knew about
physical therapy treatments but didn’t have enough
knowledge about the physical therapy rehabilitation in
breast cancer.