When Shikha first felt a lump in her breast, she immediately went to a doctor. She was not the one to ignore such a symptom. “My then doctor checked it and sent me off saying not to worry.” Going through a particularly rough patch in life, Shikha put her mind to rest and turned to her work and family. This was in December 2022.

A doctor by profession, and a mother of two, Shikha’s life can be all consuming. So it was quite a long while, almost half a year, before she told her father, also a doctor, about the continued presence of a lump in the breast.

“He immediately asked me why I had waited so long to get a second opinion, and if I had had any diagnostic tests done. His words were a wake-up call. I realized I needed to take charge of my health,” she says narrating that the speed at which she arrived at Medanta from Amritsar was only matched by the speed of diagnosis and charting of a treatment plan.

Now undergoing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for the tumour under the care of Dr. Kanchan Kaur, a strikingly beautiful Shikha sports a bald head with no scarves or apologies. As someone who is not only working through her treatment, but acing conferences and workshops, Shikha realizes how lucky she’s been. “Always take a second opinion even if you’ve been told it is probably nothing.”

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