In March last year, the mother of 38-year-old Wang Tongtong (pseudonym), Ms. Wang, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Misfortunes do not come singly. In September last year, Wang Tongtong found a “bad thing” in the cervix during a physical examination.
“I didn’t think too much about it at the time, I was more optimistic. I thought it was just a tumor, and the big deal was a knife.” Just as the National Day was approaching, Wang Tongtong also made an appointment with a cousin who also works in Haikou, and made a reservation. Hotels in Sanya, ready to take advantage of the holidays to take a good rest. Later, the results came out: locally advanced cervical cancer.
“When I heard the result, my life dropped to a freezing point.” Looking back at the scene at that time, Wang Tongtong still burst into tears. “My cousin went with me to get the results. Right at the door of the hospital, my cousin and I hugged and cried. For a whole week, everyone was in a trance and almost collapsed.”
The mother said this At the time, he was receiving treatment in the hospital, and Wang Tongtong did not dare to tell his family about his condition. My cousin happened to have been hospitalized in Hainan Cancer Hospital, and she trusted the hospital’s technical strength. She suggested Wang Tongtong to go to the hospital for further examination and treatment.
The hospital specially launched the MDT (multidisciplinary) consultation for Wang Tongtong. Since there was no chance for surgery, the hospital finally customized the individualized treatment of “internal and external irradiation combined chemotherapy” for her, taking into account the opinions of various specialists. plan.
Because of inner anxiety, fear, and the side effects in the early stage of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Wang Tongtong became restless, and even distrusted medical care and was unwilling to cooperate with treatment. But the doctors and nurses did not give up, and patiently explained each step of the treatment plan to Wang Tongtong, and chatted with her in the ward when they were free. It was the perseverance of the doctors and nurses that made Wang Tongtong firm up his confidence in treatment and ushered in a turning point in his life.
Combining with the patient’s condition, Wang Weifeng, director of the first ward of the radiotherapy department of the hospital, and Wang Tongtong’s attending physician first performed external irradiation and drug chemotherapy for Wang Tongtong, and combined the cancer cells scattered in the cervix and retroperitoneum. “Double encirclement and annihilation”, when the condition is stable and the tumor in the cervix has shrunk, the “three-dimensional post-implantation” treatment system, which was first introduced by the hospital, is used to “precisely strike” the tumor.
Wang Weifeng introduced that 3D post-installation technology, compared with 2D post-installation technology, is more accurate. It can irradiate in a fixed, directional, and quantitative manner according to tumor volume, shape, and active area of cancer cells. The irradiation dose of the target area can be adjusted according to the irregular shape of the tumor, so as to accurately kill the tumor cells. Second, it is safer and more efficient. Because of the precision, damage to normal tissue is minimal. The dose of the tumor target area is large, the killing efficiency of cancer cells is high, the damage to normal tissue is small, and the complications are few.
In order to ensure the safety and good effect of the treatment, Wang Weifeng’s team will closely monitor the changes of the tumor according to the progress of the treatment, and adjust the treatment plan many times, so as to truly achieve standardization, precision and individualization. treat.
After 7 weeks of treatment, Wang Tongtong’s tumor gradually shrank. In late February, Wang Tongtong completed the entire treatment plan and conducted a comprehensive physical examination and evaluation. The examination results showed that not only did the tumor regress well, but also reached the standard of “pathological complete remission”, and the tumor indicators in the body were the same as ordinary people.
A few days ago, Wang Tongtong’s mother was also transferred from her hometown to Hainan Cancer Hospital for treatment. Under the careful care of experts, her condition was well controlled.
(Text/Liang Shan)