368: Chapter 369: Chemotherapy 368: Chapter 369: Chemotherapy That evening, Luo Wenke, the director of another departnt at Jinling Hospital and Liang Shipeng’s attending physician, personally visited Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing in Shipeng’s private, deluxe hospital room.
Although in the afternoon, He Wencai had conducted a full-body checkup on Liang Shipeng and suspected that he had lung cancer, possibly in the advanced stages, these were only preliminary conclusions drawn from imaging studies and were not yet definitive.
However, by evening, all the test results had co back confirming that Liang Shipeng indeed had lung cancer in the mid-to-late stages, and the cancer cells had spread from the lungs to other parts of the body.
“Mr.
Liang, Mrs.
Liang, I have so bad news to share with you,”
Although Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing had already braced themselves, seeing Luo Wenke and He Wencai coming over, especially when Wenke spoke those words, the couple seed to have understood.
“Doctor, then how should we treat it?”
Zhang Jing asked.
“In cancer treatnt, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical treatnt are the three main modalities.
However, radiotherapy and surgical treatnt are more appropriate in cases with localized symptoms.
But in Mr.
Liang’s case, where the cancer cells have spread to other parts, I recomnd chemotherapy.
The goal is to use chemotherapeutic drugs to kill the cancerous cells and achieve a therapeutic effect,”
Luo Wenke explained.
He was an internal dicine expert, as well as a cancer treatnt specialist.
Although the cure rate for cancer, especially for patients in the mid-to-late stages, is very low, and the situation often involved suffering while waiting for death.
Yet, he was still an expert in this field.
Actually, considering Liang Shipeng’s condition, Wenke thought that traditional Chinese dicine treatnts might be sowhat better.
But the effects of traditional Chinese dicine were not as imdiate as those of Western dicine.
People with money fear death, so saying all this was pointless.
“Chemotherapy?
Won’t that be very painful?”
Liang Shipeng inquired.
“Yes, it will be painful.
That’s a normal phenonon.
During the process of killing cancer cells, there may also be the death of other normal cells.
But Mr.
Liang, you needn’t worry; Jinling Hospital is one of the country’s leading hospitals in cancer treatnt.
If you feel that the level of dical expertise at Jinling Hospital is inadequate, the only other option would be to seek treatnt at a major hospital in the United States,”
Jinling Hospital itself was one of the top-rated hospitals in Jiangnan Province and Jinling City, also ranking among the best in the entire country; thus, both Wenke and Wencai were highly confident about this aspect.
If Liang Shipeng still wasn’t satisfied, then the only thing left to do would be to arrange a tily transfer to one of those large hospitals in the U.S.
for treatnt.
But Wenke had studied in the United States and returned as a highly skilled practitioner of Western dicine.
He felt that the treatnt abroad was very similar to that of Jinling Hospital.
While overseas hospitals had more advanced dical equipnt, Jinling Hospital would quickly purchase at a high cost whatever cutting-edge dical technology was available.
Likewise, all the chemotherapeutic drugs used to kill the cancer cells were imported from the United States and were exactly the sa as those used there, except that the price was more than ten tis higher.
“Then let’s proceed with the treatnt,”
Liang Shipeng said.
On the treatnt risk disclosure form, Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing each signed their nas, indicating that if sothing were to occur to Liang during the treatnt, Jinling Hospital and the attending physician would not be held responsible.
Nowadays, tensions between doctors and patients often arise largely because hospitals and patients sign such risk agreents.
However, hospitals and doctors are also helpless, as they cannot be certain of completely curing a patient’s condition.
In situations such as cancer, which is a terminal illness, with such high mortality rates each year, even with the best dical skills, the cure rate may not be much higher.
After Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing had each signed the risk agreent, Luo Wenke began arranging chemotherapy for Liang Shipeng as well as the dications required for it.
After Luo Wenke left, He Wencai said, “Mr.
Liang, Mrs.
Liang, rest assured, Director Luo is a talented individual who graduated from Harvard and has returned ho.
He is an expert in cancer treatnt.
Moreover, the chemotherapy drugs being used for Mr.
Liang are all imported from the United States, which is almost equivalent to being treated in the United States.”
Hearing He Wencai say this, Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing felt sowhat relieved.
He Wencai did not stay, and soon left Liang Shipeng’s private room, which was quickly left with only Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing in it.
When Liang Shipeng found out that he had advanced stage lung cancer, he was ntally prepared and understood that he might not live much longer; at most, he might have two or three months of treatnt before he could potentially leave this world.
But during this ti, he couldn’t just do nothing and wait for death.
Zhang Jing held her husband’s hand and said, “Old Liang, don’t worry, the doctor will cure you.”
“Life and death are decreed by fate, wealth and honor are in heaven; I accept that,” Liang Shipeng said.
He didn’t want to talk about it anymore, because he knew that life is unpredictable; he never expected to fall ill with such a disease.
At half past nine in the evening, Luo Wenke and two female nurses had prepared the chemotherapy drugs for Liang Shipeng.
Upon entering his private room, the nurses began, as instructed by He Wencai, to inject the prepared chemotherapy drugs directly into Liang Shipeng’s bloodstream through syringes.
The dications then circulated through the body’s vasculature to the lungs and even to other regions where the cancer cells had spread.
This is the advantage that neither surgery nor radiation therapy possesses.
Chemotherapy can deliver the drugs to various parts of the body through the bloodstream, making it the most suitable treatnt when there is spread of cancer cells.
However, if the cancer is still in its early stages and the cancer cells have not spread, it is considered localized, and surgery can be used to remove the cancer cells and prevent the spread, while radiation therapy can, without surgery, kill localized cancer cells through local treatnt.
If the cancer has spread throughout the body, the body’s cells cannot withstand radiation therapy; a patient may not even tolerate two rounds of radiation therapy before healthy cells are killed, though the cancer cells have not been eradicated.
Initially, Liang Shipeng felt no discomfort from the chemotherapy, but soon he began to feel uneasy all over, including nausea and a desire to vomit.
Luo Wenke looked at Liang Shipeng and said, “Mr.
Liang, Mrs.
Liang, chemotherapy does have side effects, such as vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and even hair loss, all of which are within the normal range.
However, if you feel too uncomfortable, you can imdiately contact the nurses, and then contact .”
This was Liang Shipeng’s first chemotherapy session, and they planned to see how effective it was, then administer the second chemotherapy treatnt after 21 days or a month.
However, if the situation becos serious in the anti, with large-scale spread of cancer cells, doctors obviously cannot wait too long, and may have to administer the second chemotherapy session after just half a month.
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