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Breast cancer diagnosis process showing mammography biopsy pathology ER PR and HER2 testing

Surgical Oncology · 27 September 2026

Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Tests, Biopsy, ER, PR and HER2 Explained

How breast cancer is diagnosed — clinical exam, mammography, ultrasound, MRI, biopsy, pathology, ER, PR and HER2 testing, and staging — and which records international patients should send before travelling to India.

ER PR and HER2 breast cancer biomarkers explained with treatment pathways

Surgical Oncology · 27 September 2026

ER-Positive, PR-Positive and HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: What Do These Results Mean?

What ER, PR and HER2 results mean, how the combinations change treatment, and which pathology records international patients should send before travelling to India.

Breast cancer stages 0 1 2 3 and 4 showing tumour progression from cells in a duct through regional nodes to distant organs

Surgical Oncology · 27 September 2026

What Does Breast Cancer Stage Mean? Stage 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 Explained

How Stage 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 breast cancer differ, what TNM means, why ER, PR and HER2 sit beside stage, and which records international patients should send before travelling to India.

Diagram of the main cost lines in breast cancer treatment: diagnosis, surgery, medicines, radiation, and stay or travel

Surgical Oncology · 27 September 2026

Breast Cancer Treatment Cost in India: Complete Cost Guide

There is no single price for breast cancer treatment in India. This guide explains how surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, medicines, reconstruction, hospital and city change the estimate — and which records to send first.

Diagram of breast cancer Stages 1 to 4, from a small localized tumour to distant organ spread

Surgical Oncology · 27 September 2026

Breast Cancer Treatment by Stage: Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4

How Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 breast cancer treatment can differ — surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy — and what international patients should send before travelling to India.

Planning console in a radiotherapy department

Radiation Oncology · 12 August 2026

IMRT versus 3D-CRT: what a travelling patient should ask

Both shape the beam. Only one modulates intensity at every gantry angle. Here is the difference that belongs in a dossier, not a brochure.

Hospital corridor used as a travel planning visual

Proton therapy · 28 July 2026

When proton beam therapy is worth the flight

Protons stop. Photons do not. That physics is real — and it is not a reason to fly every paediatric or skull-base case to the first centre that answers email.

Hospital exterior at dusk

Stereotactic · 9 July 2026

SRS and SBRT: high dose, short stay, strict selection

Stereotactic radiosurgery and body radiotherapy pack a course into one to five fractions. That is attractive for travel. It is also unforgiving if the immobilisation or the indication is wrong.

Hospital bed and clinical lighting

Brachytherapy · 21 June 2026

Brachytherapy: the logistics nobody puts on a landing page

Intracavitary, interstitial, and plaque brachytherapy are not outpatient tourism. Theatre time, applicator inventory, and a physicist who stays for the dwell are the product.

Clinical records and a laptop on a desk

Planning · 2 June 2026

Bring the right records before you book EBRT abroad

External beam courses fail in the gaps: missing pathology, a CD that will not open, no prior DVH. This is the pack we ask for before anyone buys a ticket.