From Bangkok to Guangzhou: A Breast Cancer Patient’s Journey to Recovery
My name is Supa, I am 42 years old and I am a middle school English teacher living in Bangkok. Together with my husband Anan and my 10-year-old daughter Xiaolin, our days were originally peaceful and happy - we visited night markets on weekends and went to the beach during holidays, until last summer, when my life was suddenly disrupted by a disease.
Found abnormalities: My body suddenly "betrayed" me
When I was correcting homework that day, I accidentally felt a lump on my right chest, like a stubborn pebble. At first I thought it was swelling before my period, but two months later, the lump not only did not disappear, but my skin also had orange peel-like wrinkles. What's more terrible is that I began to have frequent low-grade fevers, night sweats soaked through my pajamas, and even picked up my daughter.
At a private hospital in Bangkok, the results of the puncture examination instantly solidified the air in the clinic - "Stage III invasive breast cancer". The attending physician recommended chemotherapy to shrink the tumor first, but after three cycles of treatment, vomiting, hair loss, and black nails followed one after another, but the white blood cell count was always hovering at a dangerous value. Even more desperate is that the reexamination report showed: "The tumor volume has only shrunk by 15%." The nurse quietly told me that the hospital's radiotherapy equipment is still the old model from ten years ago, and the targeted drugs are only basic.
Turning point: Seizing hope in despair
One late night, I curled up in my hospital bed and browsed through a breast cancer forum. A message from a Thai patient caught my eye: "Go to Guangzhou R&F Hospital in China. My tumor markers have dropped to normal values there." My husband immediately contacted the hospital's International Medical Department. During the video consultation, Director Li of the Oncology Department gave me hope: "Your HER2-positive typing is suitable for our dual-targeted combined treatment. With precision radiotherapy, the cure rate can reach more than 75%."
Crossing thousands of miles: Finding light in a foreign country
When I set foot on the land of Guangzhou, I was so weak that I needed a wheelchair to be picked up and dropped off. But the environment of R&F Hospital made me shine: there were Thai signs in the waiting area, the nurses could say simple Thai greetings, and the spiral tomotherapy device (TOMO) in the treatment room looked like a device in a science fiction movie. Director Li's team developed a step-by-step plan of "neoadjuvant chemotherapy + targeted therapy + surgery + proton radiotherapy" for me.
What surprised me most was the chemotherapy experience - the drugs were slowly injected through the infusion port, combined with Chinese medicine patches and acupressure, which reduced the nausea by half. When the PET-CT showed that the tumor had shrunk by 60% after the second cycle, I cried while touching the stubble that had grown back. Proton radiotherapy is even more magical: each treatment is like a CT scan, and there is no skin burn. After 28 irradiations, the doctor pointed to the three-dimensional image and told me: "The edges are clean, and there is no residue."
Rebirth: Returning to the podium from the sickbed
It has been three months since I returned to the Bangkok campus. Students say that I am more energetic than before I got sick - I run 3 kilometers every morning, take my daughter to learn swimming on weekends, and the Thai doctor exclaimed "miracle" when he saw the completely normal tumor marker report during the follow-up examination. Last week, I received a recovery medal sent from Guangzhou. I pinned it on my teaching folder to remind myself all the time: this cross-border treatment not only cured my body, but also made me believe in the warmth and power of modern medicine.
Guangzhou R&F Hospital Cancer Center opens the era of "survival without chemotherapy" for cancer patients and wins a lasting victory for life. If you or your family are facing difficulties in cancer treatment, please contact Guangzhou R&F Hospital Cancer Center. We provide multilingual medical record consultation, contact us immediately to get an assessment of treatment qualifications.
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