Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Love and touch make patients overcome cancer

Getting cancer is a disaster for a family. No one will igorne the pain and sadness from patients even the doctors and nurses, care more about patients and fight the cancer with them are not only about “duty”, it is human natutal affect. Only when have the same feeling, we are easy to touched and make us to try every effect to save the patients, so the “uncurable” cancer may be“ treatable”.

Kecheng Xu, a doctor who have studied cancer for decades, he is also a liver cancer patient. Since her mother died of advanced cancer, he decided to study the cancer for his whole life, so i wonder a doctor who spend his lifetime to study the cancer treatments with great hope to save more cancer patients, whether his story is touched for people?

Dr.Xu have mentioned that treating disease need theory and practice, it is a combination among science,technology and art as well as a ”Extreme Challenge” for advanced cancer patients. Actually, doctors face with ordeal when meeting patient everytime. They have to do countless clinical surgeries to get rich experience in treating people, for young doctors they have to learn from the professional and rich-experience doctors untill they are skillful enough or better than their teachers. For the past few years, our doctors have accepted a large number of “challenges”, every patient will be regarded as doctors’ challenge, they are team to discuss the patients’ condition and share the research idea and their experience to decide the best treatment for every patient. For get more advanced and effective treatments’ research, the doctors carry out the academic discussion with different countries every year, and visit the cancer survivor who achieve long-term survival after the treatments in our hospital from other countries, is to be able to make breakthrough of cancer treatments through knowing patients daily lifestyle, idea, and ways to fight cancer, hope can breakthrough and improve the existing clinical medicine technology to save more patients.

However, cancer therapies are not just methods to treat cancer, the more are the social love and emotion from doctors, nurses, patients, families and friends, I think helping patients to overcome cancer ultimately are love and strengh of solidarity. I have met a 60 year-old patient, there are several small or larger multiple tumors in his liver, his blood protein more than 200 microgramme. “though i have studies the liver cancer for decades, when i saw this liver patient i was shocked, that remind me of my mother died of terminal liver cancer 40 years ago, even though it is useless at that time i still sent for several best professors from Shanghai to treat my mother, no matter what kind of situation at that time, i still hope to catch any chance even there is little to save my mom in my heart, whatever cost i have to pay . Maybe the same feeling of loss and sorrow from the patient, when i meet them, there is always a twinge pain deep down my heart” the Dr.Xu said.

For this liver cancer patients, like his physical condition the surgery is impossible, chemo only do harm rather than good, radiation work little. Though cryosurgery is effective with liver cancer, but just good for less number tumors. “facing his daughter, I have no choice, i have to create the condition and try, finally i decided to use combined immunotherapy for cancer, hope can let tumor into “sleep” and live peaceful with cancer. The results showed that i was right, that may be one of the touch things, which stimulate myself to create new idea, it is a thought of breakthrough.” Dr. Xu said. Now, this pancreatic cancer patient have less tumor in his body, the survival cancer cells have been sleep and didn't recur again . After that, we went to his home, he is no longer focus on his work like before, the more he likes to do now are that not only play flute and erhu for his neighbors and friends every day, but also keep goldfish, rabbits and hamsters, he looks so happy and enjoyable. Maybe his families’ love to their father touch us, we are easy to be moved, then we keep on going to accept more challenges.

                                            Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital

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