My name is Carlos Sanchez, I am 48 years old and I am from Manila, Philippines. As a department manager of a trading company, I used to lead a busy and fulfilling life - commuting between the office and home every day, going to the beach with my wife and two children on weekends, and occasionally playing basketball with friends. Although there was a lot of pressure, I always felt that I was in my prime and in good health, until that morning last year that changed my destiny.
"Cancer is not the end, but the starting point of finding hope. Don't be trapped by outdated treatment concepts. The world's top medical technology can really create miracles." - Carlos Sanchez
Sudden abdominal pain shatters peaceful life
In March 2023, I started to have frequent stomach pains, and I would have acid reflux and bloating after eating a few bites of food. I lost 15 kilograms in two months. At first I thought it was due to work pressure, until I suddenly vomited dark red blood clots during a meeting. My wife immediately dragged me to the best private hospital in Manila. The four words "advanced gastric cancer" on the gastroscopy report were like a basin of ice water pouring through my whole body - I realized that the faint fatigue and gradually blackened stool in the past six months were all my body's cry for help.
The dilemma of local treatment: the double torture of technology and drugs
The local doctor suggested chemotherapy to shrink the tumor first, but the monthly treatment fee of $8,000 almost emptied my savings, but in return I vomited more than ten times a day, my hair fell out, and even drinking water felt like swallowing a razor blade. What was even more desperate was that during the third follow-up, the tumor not only did not shrink, but also metastasized to the lymph nodes. The attending doctor shook his head and said, "We don't have more accurate equipment here, maybe you should consider hospice care." Late that night, I touched the hair of my sleeping child and cried all night.
A turning point in fate: the dawn of medical care across the South China Sea
My wife accidentally watched a Chinese medical documentary late at night. In the interventional treatment room of the International Cancer Center of Guangzhou R&F Hospital, doctors were using catheters to accurately locate tumors and inject drugs. We contacted the International Department of the hospital overnight. During the video consultation, Director Lin Weiming pointed to my CT image and explained: "Although the stage is relatively late, interventional treatment can directly block the blood supply to the tumor, and combined with the photon knife to remove metastatic lesions, there is still a chance of cure."
90 days of rebirth in Guangzhou
In September 2023, we flew to Guangzhou with all our hopes. The treatment was much easier than expected. Minimally invasive interventional treatment only left a needle-sized wound on the thigh. During the operation, I watched the tumor blood vessels on the screen being precisely embolized. Photon knife radiotherapy was like a CT scan, lying down for 15 minutes, without hair loss or burning pain. The medicinal diet prepared by the Chinese medicine team kept the blood count stable during chemotherapy. In the third week of treatment, the stomach bloating that lasted for half a year suddenly disappeared; after a follow-up examination two months later, the stomach tumor shrank by 60% and the metastasis completely disappeared. When I ran through the hospital corridor holding the PET-CT report, the bougainvillea by the Pearl River was in full bloom.
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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