Mrs Luo Breast Cancer Hong Kong

No matter who confronts with cancer, he will be frightened.

Mrs Luo from Hong Kong, 46 years old, she once was a stewardess of international flights seven years ago. She told the writer that she had been to lots of international airport while wearing uniforms and heels and carrying luggage and traveled all across the world. Her life was full of fun for every flight. She loved flight to Swizerland best, because she thought sights there were beautiful. Though it was busy, but she loved such life.

Unexpectedly, in early 2009, a sudden cancer diagnosis destroyed her loved life. She had to quit her job and sought medical care here and there. It was the darkest period of her life. Following is Mrs Luo’s narration.

On March, 2009  Breast Cancer Was after Me

On a day of early March, I felt my breast was kind of itchy, so I scratched it. Just one touch, I found a lump in the lateral portion of right breast. At that moment, the words “breast cancer” flashed in my mind. Later on, I thought I shouldn’t be so unfortunate.

Next morning, I went to a well-known private clinic at Hong Kong to have physical examination without telling my family. After conducting examinations like type-B ultrasound, puncture, the doctor confidently told me it was benign fibrosarcoma and it would be fine after removing it by surgery.

Hearing that, I was relieved. However, the day before surgery, I suddenly received a call from the doctor: “Your exam report shows it likely was malignant. But you should still have surgery. I will cut it out. If pathology shows malignant during surgery, I will cut more immediately.” Doctor’s ambiguous words made me lose confidence to him. I decided to find other more professional doctor.

On May, 2009  Surgical Removal

After two months, I found a famous professor of oncology at Hong Kong. We found that the lump had been 2 cm across in ultrasound examination. After surgery, professor said coldly, “the lump has been cut out. But there are still 15% of cancer cells left in your body. Having chemo and radiation therapy, it will reduce 10%. And whether the 5% can be eliminated depends on your luck.” Professor’s words chilled my heart. I didn’t want to entrust my life to such an indifferent doctor.

On July, 2009  Accepting Comprehensive Treatment and TCM

I started to accept natural therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine introduced by a friend. After half a year, the re-examination showed that there was no cancer cell in my body. But doctor still demanded me to have organic diet and TCM. So I insisted on practicing for four years.

On May, 2014  Lump Was Found in Right Breast again

In early 2014, I felt my body has been improved well. So I stopped taking natural therapy and TCM while working again. Unexpectedly, on May, I found lump in my right breast again. I took natural therapy again. But the tumor became uncontrollable. In the end of 2015, examination showed that the lump had developed to 8*6 centimeters. The biopsy showed that it was invasive ductal carcinoma and postoperative recurrence should be considered.

  

I was upset and wanted to give up. But I was unwilling to give up because of my old parents.

Two Books Made Me Know about FUDA

When I sought for proper treatment plan, I suddenly remembered Nothing but the Truth the book assistant who knew I was a cancer patient lent me when I bought health care products at Hong Kong three years ago. The author was Prof. Xu Kecheng, chief president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital.

After reading Prof. Xu’s book, I very agreed with his treatment concept. Fuda Cancer Hospital left me a good impression.

Meanwhile, it reminded me a thing—about ten years ago, a friend of mine was diagnosed with advanced lipoma. Doctor of Hong Kong said he just had three months to live. Then he accepted comprehensive treatment including cryosurgery and so on. Her lifetime was more than 6 years. It’s pity that he died soon after recurrence for he didn’t have re-examination in time.

In early 2016, a long lost friend called me. He is an Indonesian Chinese. He often works for hospital as a translator. He took part on lectures of Fuda Cancer Hospital many times and sent me a lot of material about FUDA. Among them, there was Living with Cancer, a new book written by Prof. Xu Kecheng. He repeatedly reminded me of attending president Niu Lizhi’s lecture at Hong Kong on March 1.

On March 1, I attended Dr Niu’s lecture and consulted him. In my impression, he was modest, gentle and caring.

In 2016   Going to Fuda Cancer Hospital for Treatment

On March 6, I went to Fuda Cancer Hospital to accept treatment. After having interventional therapy, recurrent tumor in right breast and metastatic tumor in right axilla became smaller. I didn’t felt painful during the treatment.

On June 6, Prof. Wang Jianan conducted radical resection of right breast tumor for me. Prof. Wang Jiannan was caring to patient. Before surgery, he told me the surgery was complicated because my lymph nodes in the collarbone and right axilla were connected. But he was sure he could do it well. As expected, the surgery was successful. I very appreciated him. After surgery, I had a good recovery and lived like normal people.

Mrs Luo and doctor Shi Hongxia

(From left) doctor Zhan, Mrs Luo and doctor Shi Hongxia

Mrs Luo and staff of FUDA

During hospitalization at Fuda Cancer Hospital, I was very satisfied with these medical staff. They not only had excellent medical skills, but also were caring to patient. My doctor in charge Shi Hongxia not only paid attention on my changes of medical condition all the time, she also always encouraged me and made me feel that I was not alone at battle with cancer.

Every time I come back to Hong Kong after having treatment at Fuda Cancer Hospital. Friends meet me all say that I was energetic and totally unlike a cancer patient. After having cancer, I learn more about gratitude. I thank my family, friends, doctors and nurses very much. They helped me to gain confidence and power during fighting against cancer.

I survive! I hope all cancer patients can defeat cancer and wish them a happy and wonderful life!

Cancer Patients Survival Is The Hard Truth

We all know cancer is like a disaster for a person even for a whole family, especially for terminal cancer. Many of netizen will introduce their finding of natural herbal medicine to treat cancer, but to tell the true, most of natural herbal medicine just in help for cancer the same as to Chinese traditional medicine, so when the herbal is used to treat cancer? And what kind of treatments do you think are effective to advanced cancer patients. Here let me tell you the true.

Tell The True

At present, medium and advanced cancer are hard to be crued, they just can be treated well to prolong the patients’life, well, it is not a absolute, it may be also a change to be cured, but i wonder how do you define “cure” of cancer? what kind of extent do you think is “cure”? First, we need to turn to several ways to explain it:

For different patients caused different cancers, some of them are on early or medium stage, some of them are suffering from advanced cancer, early stage can be easier cured by surgery or ordinary treatment like chemo or radiation though there is much side effect and pain, but medium and advanced cancer are a hard nut to crack, because the cancer cells have attached and invaded to your large tissue, it is a terrible situation, well, that required most complicated treatments and surgery to kill the cancer cell. Let us make a assumption, if you have an advanced cancer and you did find the good doctors and treatments you think, the doctor said your cancer can be cured or you can live 5-10 years, well, i think the doctor tell the true, but i think there is a precondition, that you need to control well your survival cancer cell or your health well after the treatments or surgery, especially for the tumor exist in internal organs. You know if you can not treat well your body, for example, stay up late, excessive drinking, eat much junk food, obesity... the cancer will be recurrent and metastatic easily, even though you have vary healthy lifestyle it is also hard to say that you don’t have cancer, it may be other rare reasons like genes or bacterial infection. So that is what we really need to think about how to define “cure” of cancer, in other words, “cure” is to let cancer patients live longer and longer untill the natural end the life.

 So, How To Live Longer And Improve The High Quality Of Life.

If you want to live longer and longer, we need to find the right hospital, doctors and treatments first, and then choose one hospital you think is good for you among most of hospitals. Here i can recommed the Fuda Cancer Hospital how to prolong the patients’ life and improve their quality of life.

In general, chemo or radiation are common used cancer treatments, but it may caused much side effect and pain, other options in Fuda including: Cryosurgey, Nanoknife, Immunotherapy, Vascular Interventional Therapy, Photodynamic Therapy (PDT),T-plus Immunotherapy for Malignancies, Anti-angiogenesis Therapy, Chinese Traditional Medicine..., the most popular and famous are “3C+P” treatment model and Nanoknife in Fuda hospital. All above of them have little side effect and pain. 3C: Cryosurgical Ablation (cryosurgery), Combined Cancer Immunotherapy, Cancer Microvascular Intervention, P: Personalized Therapy which treat according to the patients personal body condition. For example, patients who do not want or are not suitable to take operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Or patients who got poor efficacy after taking traditional operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The Fuda doctors and experts will improve the patients’ nutrition and immunity first, then do the surgery, which can decrease the risk of surgery and ensure the patients safety.

“3C+P” treatment model aim at treating the medium and advanced terminal cancer, as to prolong their life and improve their high quality of life, the quality of life mean that the patients live without pain with little cancer survival cell which is fall into sleep after accepting treatments, and won’t “wake up” won’t attack your tissue. But you want to be “cure” don’t let your unhealthy lifestyle to wake up the cancer cells because cancer cells are changed from normal cells under a terrible body condiction. That is why required the cancer patients to do a regular examiation to prevent the cancer recurrent and metastasis.

So, the “cure” is to keep your body in a sercurity environment and condition i think, most of Fuda cancer survivors have lived over 8-10 years, some are longer. Another important point is to know well how to prevent cancer recurrence and metastasis.

How To Choose Hospital And Experts.

The best suggestion is to know well hospital and experts you find, then to make your final decision in case of any faker happen around you.

1. To see the hospital whether accredited by JCI or have other authoritative international approval.

Fuda Cancer Hospital have been accredited by JCI (Joint Commission International), and which is one of sponsors of ISC ( International Society of Cryosurgery). The combined treatment model have beed approved by NCCN.

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JCI

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2. How To Know The Doctors And Experts Skill.

First, to see the their qualification, honor and award, then review their experience on clinical surgery. For Example, Fuda president and doctor Xu Kecheng, vice president and doctor Niu Lizhi.

Fuda president and doctor Xu Kecheng:

President of 17th International Society of Cryosurgery

He was awarded the highest honor - "Bethune Medal" in 2012 for his excellent work and contributions to China's national healthcare system.

Vice President and doctor Niu Lizhi:

Award of “Brilliant contribution to World Conference on Interventional Oncology” , the 14th World Congress of Cryosurgery in Beijing, 2007.

Another is to know the professional team

3. Read The Patients Stories To Know More Detail

4. Consult The people who know Fuda Cancer Hospital around you.

5. To See The Media Report And News On TV

Doctors Are the Key Than Advanced Medical Equitments To Desperate Cancer Like Giant Tumors

Look back to every cancer patient came to Fuda from different countries and places, it is a process of complication to peace and then go to the happy ending, why i have such deep feeling, because they are here around me. Most of cancer patients had been accepted several surgeries or chemo treatments in their countries, which the doctors were unable to treat their terminal tumors any more, then they find fuda for help. As an important international advanced cancer research center and cancer hospital, Fuda cancer hospital have been investing a plenty of time, manpower, material resources to import advanced equitment , cultivate experienced experts and improve their skill, our president , a 77 years old liver cancer surivior and doctor Kecheng, Xu break the traditional though to create “3C+P” treatment model which is specialized in advanced cancer, what they are used to have been successful to treat 10,000 cancer cases.

President of Fuda Dr.Kecheng.Xu(left)and Vice President Dr.Feng.Mu(right)

But what i really admired are the experts’ rich experience, excellent skill, strong psychological enduring capacity, good team-work and brave enough to accept the challenges, I wonder if there are no such experts exist, even though you have the most advanced medical equitments, there still fail to save cancer patients, because they also must know well other disease how to be cured from cancer patients like diabetes, hypertension, imflammation, obesity, renal insufficiency and etc.

However, most of the cancer patients our doctors met all suffer from other complicated disease besides cancer or the diseases caused from cancer, that is to say, the surgery became seriously difficulty in most of time, especially for advanced cancer.

Here is a giant tumor case to show the important of experts skill and experience on tumor Resection operation.

8 year-old gril Airin From Malaysia grew a 4 kilo giant tumor on her left shank

The patient, 8 years old, is called Airin from Ipoh, Malaysia, grew a 4 kilo and 61.5 CM giant tumor on her left leg, The malaysia hospital diagnosed that it is “ Myxiod spindle cell sarcoma”, the doctors suggested to do the amputation surgery for Airin. Considered amputation will bring bad influence to their daughter life, Airin’s parents refused the suggestion, and turn to another help.

On Marh, 2016, they came to a hospital in Guangzhou China for twice treatments, but the condition grew bad faster , the tumor was bigger than before. In desperation, they have to try to find the better hospital online. Eventurally, they found our hospital in Youtube, after consulting with our vice president and doctor Mu Feng, they took her daughter to Fuda hospital on the next day.

For the long time of delay effective treatment, Airin become thin with black skin and acutely malnourished, weigh only 22 kilo. After more CT and MRI reexamination , Found that Airin heart beat 140 times/min, exist in the amount of pericardial effusion, pneumonia, fever reach to 37.5 to 38.5 degrees celsius every day, and low potassium tendency for 2.6/L, low protein(albumin only 25g ). The original plan from Fuda for Airin is to do some nutrition support first to correct the low potassium, low protein and other child’s pneumonia, and will to do the surgery on April 7.

However, in the afternoon on March 30th,2016. Airin’s condition turn worse suddenly, with a dangerous fever, the tumors increased quickly in a few days, the artery on her tumor left leg stop pulsing , her skin became pale and cold, which are named ”fascia chamber syndrome”. If there is not a quick solution, it may change kidney failure and other complication for Airin.

There is no double that it is a severe challenge, Dr.Xu organized our hospital experts and other orthopedists, cancer experts of Guangzhou to make a more detail consultation, diagnosis and discussion, finally, they decided to do the surgery for Airin on April 1st, 2016.

In the morning of April 1st , Malaysian consulate officials in Guangzhou got this news, then they came to fuda to see Airin and comfort Airin’s parents, talked with fuda doctors to know detail situation.

11 am on April 1st, Airin was taken to the operating room, several cancer experts and doctors did emergency surgery for Airin, in the process, found that her huge tumor had have embraced calf bood vessels and nerves, her muscle tissue of calf has been invaded by tumors cells. In order to save the child’s left leg and function, the experts spent two and a half hours in separating carefully the tumor with blood vessels and nerves. After six hours of hard work, managed to remove the giant tumor which weighted 3.9kg. Postoperatively, the foot dorsal edema has been clear obviously, toes blood supply back to normal.

Whatever Airin’s parents or doctors or other people, it is a vary suffering process that full of worry, anxiety ,nervous and complicated emotion, they all pray for Airin, Dr.Xu said: “ letting go or never giving up”, As long as there is a glimmer of hope, there is no reason to give up.

Before that, our doctors have done such surgeries of huge tumor on face, stomach, uterus, head and other, some more emergency than Airin’s leg Fibrosarcoma.

In a word, the doctor’s skill and experience are the key of surgery. What do you think?