The breast is an even organ that stopsgrowing at puberty in men and in women after childbrith and breastfeeding. Breast diseases are quite common. Even the diagnostics today has improved, as well as medical treatment, many womwn still suffer from various tumorous diseases. In the world, as well as in Croatia, the most common of such, diseases is breast cancer. This disease does not spare neither young girls, womwn. Breast tumor can be benign and malignant. It has to be discovered in the earliest possible phase. Malignant tumours, cancers are incurable diseases. Carcinomas metastasize. There are diseases that are treated for as long as it possible. When they reach high expansion, metastazis and occupy, a healthy organ, a healthy part of body, the lymph glands, and when there is no hep anymore, when we have to stop all treatment, we switch to palliative treatment. In such diseases, in their progradation, various symptoms that we must act on. The essence of palliative medicine is to eliminate the symptoms of malignancies, such as pain, nausea, vomiting, general weakness, decreased appetite, fatigue... Often these are the syptoms that kead to termination of life, slowing of metabolism gradually leads to life termination. Some of the symptoms, such as pain, can be tackled on operatively. How? The pain is operatively tackled in a way that the advanced tumor, the exulcerate, if it presses a particular body part, leading to intolerabe pain, at least one part of the tumour is surgically removed, if it is not possible to remove it completely. We should help the patient to accept his illness, to accept what awaits him. We must approach each person individually and listen to him, in a holistic way. We should help the patient and his family and loved ones. We must also support the family and allow the patient to take off, easily, without suffering or pain.