Morning fog and coughing in Bangkok
My name is Anan Songpa, I am 42 years old and I am the operations manager of a travel company in Chiang Mai. For the past ten years, I have looked out at the mist over Suthep Mountain from my balcony every morning. After sending my two children to school, I would drive through the congested streets to sign travel orders. Until last year's rainy season, the persistent low-grade fever and the heart-wrenching dry cough filled my chest like a ball of cotton wool.
White shadows on CT scans: I was paused
In a private hospital in Chiang Mai, the doctor stared at the "ground glass shadows" on the CT scans with a frown. When the biopsy report landed, my wife clutched my sleeve and trembled - the five words "advanced lung adenocarcinoma" were more terrifying than all the breach of contract I had ever handled.
"When breathing becomes a luxury, there may be a pair of hands saving you on the other side of the world" - Anan Songpa
The dilemma of chemotherapy in Thailand: Vomiting to the point of not being able to recognize myself
The targeted drugs left me with ulcers all over my mouth, and vomiting bile while holding the toilet after chemotherapy infusion became a daily routine. The most desperate thing was the sigh of the attending doctor: "The tumor is close to the large blood vessels, and we dare not take the risk of surgery." Looking at the sunken cheeks in the mirror, I even secretly wrote a suicide note.
China's Solution in Facebook Patient Groups
While browsing social media late at night, I stumbled upon a post written in Thai about a lung cancer treatment case at Guangzhou R&F Hospital. The video showed an interventional treatment called "cryo-needle", which uses extremely low temperatures to destroy cancer cells by inserting a thin needle directly into the center of the tumor. The entire process was animated, and its precision and complexity were impressive, like a carefully planned military operation to ensure accurate targeting without damaging surrounding healthy tissues. I contacted the WhatsApp contact provided by the international medical department of the hospital overnight, and after in-depth communication, I decided to go abroad for treatment. After completing the procedures for going abroad for treatment, I immediately went to Guangzhou, China.
-196℃ Battle of Ice and Fire: Interventional Combined Cryoablation
When I was lying on the operating table at Guangzhou R&F Hospital, the tumor in my lung had grown to 5.8 cm. This was a disturbing size that not only threatened my life but also brought me great psychological pressure. However, with the support of modern medical technology, I was fortunate to receive interventional combined cryoablation treatment, which was a "battle of ice and fire" at extremely low temperatures.
The first thing to be done was the infusion of chemotherapy drugs under the guidance of DSA (digital subtraction angiography). During the operation, I was awake throughout the whole process, and I could see through the screen that the catheter accurately entered the tumor blood vessels under the doctor's delicate operation. As the chemotherapy drugs were injected, I could feel a subtle change, as if the tumor was gradually losing its vitality.
Three days later, I had the more critical cryotherapy. The core of this technology is a device called "argon-helium knife", which can reduce the temperature to minus 196 degrees Celsius in a very short time, causing the cells inside to die due to low temperature. At the beginning of the operation, through the screen, I saw the tumor gradually shrinking like melting ice cream. The visual impact shocked me and filled me with hope.
From suffocation to deep breathing: witnessing a miracle in two weeks
On the seventh day after surgery, it was the first time in six months that I didn’t have to hold my chest to breathe. The lung-moistening decoction prepared by the Chinese medicine team turned the dry cough after chemotherapy into an occasional cough. When the follow-up CT scan showed that the tumor had shrunk by 60%, my wife cried and took a photo of me laughing.
Return to the blue sky with the Chinese solution
Now, I still gaze at Suthep Mountain every morning, but no longer to hide my cough. When I led a group to Phuket last week, the diving instructor was surprised at my lung capacity. Every time I look through the Chinese and Thai medical instructions in the treatment record book, I always think of the words of the doctor in Guangzhou: "Lung cancer is not the end, but the starting point for you to learn to respect life."
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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