In 2009 when 31-year-old Tanzeela, a private school teacher went to have a bath, she noticed a lump in her left breast. Once out, frightened, she revealed this to her husband, Younis Ahmad.
The panicked couple first tried to ignore it as the lump was not causing her any pain. But both had weird thoughts of what it could be. Younis, a worker at medical college Bemina, he had seen the worst of such discoveries.
Mother of two, Tanzeela left her two daughters, aged 6 and 2, with her brother and accompanied Younis to a surgeon. Doctor’s diagnosis was vindicated by FNAC tests and the mass was first-stage breast cancer.
Devastated by the revelation, they consulted their family doctor and finally landed in SKIMS Soura, Kashmir’s tertiary care hospital.
After many consultations and range of investigations, the oncologists decided to go for a surgery, as the disease was localised to Tanzeela’s one breast only, followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
The doctors told her she had better chances of survival and quickly removed her disease infested breast. Later, she was suggested to come for a session of chemotherapy, of six doses and around 22 radiotherapy sessions in the hospital’s Regional Cancer Centre (RCC).
After the twin therapies, she was put on medicines for five years with regular tests and follow-up. By then, she had shifted to her eldest brother’s home where they (Tanzeela’s family) stayed for almost five years.
Tanzeela was absolutely doing well and her medical tests indicated her well-being. After five years the couple decided to return home. For next two years, the family lived happily and Tanzeela took all charges of her house again.
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Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country that was always in turmoil and one of the worst targets of the Great Game suffered immensely throughout, especially in the last 40 years, Masood Hussain writes
FINGERS CROSSED
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Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
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Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
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Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
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