EFFICACY OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES AS ADJUVANT TREATMENT IN CANCER: AN OBSERVATIONAL CASE SERIES

Abstract

Breast cancer is most common types of malignancy in female which we encounter in our day-to-day opds. Where environmental factors and lifestyle play a major role for developing ca breast. Treatment includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiations and HRT, which causes many side effects including weakness, poor appetite, sleeplessness etc. so, here Homoeopathy is used in conjunction with other mode of treatment with intention to reduce post treatment side effect which hampers patient’s quality of life (QOL). So, here retrospective study of 3 cases of ca breast are done where Homoeopathic treatment used as an adjuvant therapy. Among the three patients with a high symptom burden evaluated using Edmonton symptom assessment system (ESAS), out of which two underwent surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, while one underwent surgery only. Medicines were prescribed on the basis of prescribing totality of the Patient. The findings suggest that the addition of Homoeopathy led to a notable reduction in symptom burden and an overall enhancement in patient well-being, demonstrating its potential as a supportive therapy in breast cancer care. So, these results to pave the way in the cases of cancer as an adjuvant therapy and as a sole therapy for further systematic research in such cases.