Written By: Lothungbeni Humtsoe | Published : July 16, 2025 5:48 PM IST
Dipika Kakar
Months after getting diagnosed with stage-2 liver cancer and undergoing surgery to treat the 'tennis ball-sized' liver tumour, Sasural Simar Ka star Dipika Kakar has finally started her targeted therapy.
In a recent video shared on YouTube, the actor discusses her progress with the deadly medical condition and how doctors have warned her to take precautionary measures.
Dipika begins the video with, "Today is July 10th, and is also my first day of targeted therapy. So far, I'm not experiencing any side effects, but if anything may happen could surface only after some days."
Talking about keeping one's body moisturised during a critical time, she further added, "Besides causing mouth ulcers, the targeted treatment can cause sores on the hands and feet."
The 38-year-old Bigg Boss 12 contestant, who is documenting her cancer journey on YouTube, has now revealed that she has undergone mammography to rule out any changes in her breast tissue.
The daily soap star says she did this because earlier in the year, before she was diagnosed with cancer, it was a mammogram, which revealed enlarged lymph nodes in her left breast.
Now her mammography has shown her that the lymph nodes have shrunk.
Once a liver cancer survivor is through with the treatment protocol, they must get a mammogram because this test can detect breast tissue anomalies or new growth.
While no evidence proves that breast cancer can spread to the liver, as per the National Institute of Health (NIH), conditions like NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) might be linked to breast cancer.
A targeted therapy is a kind of treatment for the genes and proteins found in the cancer cells that control how those cells grow, divide, and spread.
Although this type of therapy aims to reduce damage to healthy cells because "healthy cells can also have some of these proteins, targeted therapy can affect them too, causing side effects," the American Cancer Society (ACS) explains.
Some common examples of targeted therapy's side effects, according to ACS, are:
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