I thought it was just a normal stomachache
My name is Chen Minghua, I am 48 years old and I run a hardware trading company. I showed up at the warehouse on time at 6 o'clock every morning, and ate laksa and watched football games with my wife and children at night. This kind of life lasted for a full ten years. Until last year's rainy season, I found that when I ate curry, it felt like someone was scraping the stomach wall with sandpaper. The painkiller I took went from 1 pill a week to 3 pills a day. After three gastroscopy operations in a private hospital, the Indian doctor with a mustache pushed the report in front of me: "Stage III signet ring cell carcinoma, total gastrectomy is recommended."
"Cancer is not the final destination, but a transit station in life. When you reach despair in the dark tunnel, remember that there is always a shadowless lamp on the other side of the earth to light up for you - the key is to take the step of finding the light." - Chen Minghua
Chemotherapy turned me into a living skeleton
I had three-quarters of my stomach removed surgically, but a CT scan three months later showed liver metastasis. The chemotherapy pump was hung on my body 24 hours a day, and my hair fell into the steamer of Malay cakes. The most terrifying thing was neurotoxicity - once when I was signing a contract for a client, my fingers suddenly twitched and threw the pen three meters away. My wife secretly recorded a video of me curled up in the toilet and vomited: "If you keep going like this, you will die earlier than your father!"
Seeing the light of life on YouTube
At 3 a.m. that day, the painkiller was no longer effective and I watched a case video from Guangzhou R&F Hospital. Director Lin from the interventional department was demonstrating "particle implantation". Those radioactive particles, which were smaller than sesame seeds, surrounded the tumor accurately on the screen like a swarm of fireflies. When I was counting my savings and gritting my teeth to book a flight, I found a Malay message in the video comment area: "My father lived five more years here."
20-minute surgery changes fate
When the plane slowly landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, I was full of anticipation and a little nervous. This was my first time in this bustling city, and also my first time meeting the legendary Director Lin, a renowned expert in the field of tumor treatment.
Walking into the hospital, the air was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant, but the spacious and bright conference room at the end of the corridor gave people a warm feeling. Director Lin was standing in front of a huge display screen, which showed a 3D reconstruction of the lesion in the patient's body. "Look," he said, pointing to the oddly shaped dots scattered around the liver, "these metastases are like the thorns on the surface of durian. Although they seem inconspicuous, they hide huge threats." Then, he explained in detail the treatment plan they would adopt: first, through interventional embolization technology, cut off the path for the tumor to obtain nutrition, and then use 125 iodine particles for precise radiotherapy to achieve the effect of "directional blasting".
The whole process sounds complicated and sophisticated, but in Director Lin's calm and confident words, it seems that everything is no longer so scary. On the day of the operation, lying on the operating table that is much softer than expected, through the heavy lead glass window, you can see the busy but orderly work scene outside. The robotic arm rotates flexibly, accurately implanting tiny 125 iodine particles into the predetermined position. At that moment, the power of technology makes people awed.
The most surprising thing is that the recovery speed after the operation is much faster than expected. When I woke up the next morning, the hand tremor problem that had troubled me for many years had miraculously disappeared! It turns out that this innovative therapy can effectively avoid damage to surrounding healthy tissues, especially the nervous system, thereby greatly reducing the chance of side effects.
Bringing the Chinese Plan Home
Now I always have two CT scans in my wallet: one was taken in Kuala Lumpur, with white spots all over the liver; the other was taken during the three-month follow-up, and the lesion area looked like it had been carefully erased by an eraser. When I put on my suit again to bid last week, my partner was surprised and said, "Boss Chen, you look better now than before you got sick!"
"Cancer is not the final destination, but a transit station in life. When you reach despair in the dark tunnel, remember that there is always a shadowless lamp on the other side of the earth to light up for you - the key is to take the step of finding the light." - Chen Minghua
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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