Reflections on the Care of a Patient with Palliative Care Needs

CASE SUMMARY

28 year old female with diagnosis of carcinoma of left breast with metastatic relapce. She is a young female, house wife by profession and was diagnosed as a case of carcinoma of left breast in the year 2011 where she was treated at a local hospital and she underwent mastectomy followed by concurrent radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Although patient was responding well to the chemotherapy and radiation therapy in the initial stages, few months later the tumour has started to recur. Scan showed relapse with metastasis to bone, liver, lung and brain.