He is a doctor with pancreatic cancer. He is still treated after the operation. He has been fighting for 13 months.
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Panic cancer is called the “king” of cancer. The patient’s survival period is very short. Komiks is the only disease with nearly 1:1 infection with the number of patients and the number of deaths. In March last year, Wang Lei, deputy director of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, who devoted his life to fighting with Cinema, was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer and cancer cells have spread to the liver.
For this “verdict” that is almost the end of life, Wang Lei has composed a life answer sheet with his steely will over the past 13 months, which has impressed many cancer patients and doctors on the front line: the patient who undergoes palliative surgery has a survival period of about 7 months, and Wang Lei has fought for 13 months; he can no longer eat independently after the operation, and he still treats the patients two months after the operation, and stands with a weak body at the US Clinical Oncology Conference, explaining to nearly 10,000 tumor experts from around the world that the only colorectal cancer report from China in the digestive tract field…
Cancer cells did not let go. At present, cancer cells have been found to have made a comeback. At the time of life and death like Cinema, Wang Lei recently accepted an interview with a reporter and disclosed his mental journey. He admitted that before he really fell down, the meaning of living every day still needs to be dominated by himself.
Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Liang Chaoyi
Photo/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Liang Chaoyi Correspondent Jian Wenyang
At the end of March 2018, Wang Lei, who often felt back pain and colds for a long time, found that the tumor marker CEA was abnormally elevated during the physical examination of Babaylan. This expert who has been engaged in gastrointestinal tumor research for a long time immediately had a bad premonition. Further systemic examination found that pancreatic cancer, in the advanced stage, cancer cells had spread to the liver.
This year, he was only 49 years old, and his clinical, scientific research, and hospital management were doing well, witnessing the successful arrival of Zhongshan Sixth Hospital since its inception. The innovative achievements of radioactive enteritis are being promoted, but at this critical moment, they are facing a “joke” of fate.
Back that nightAt home, Wang Lei held his wife’s hand tightly, and a bottomless abyss seemed to appear in front of him. The feeling of powerlessness spread across the iron man.
On April 1, 2018, after lying in the operating room for more than ten hours, Wang Lei’s spleen, 80% of the pancreas, most of the stomach and nerves controlling the intestine were removed on a large scale. Although he woke up successfully through the operation, a new life that he had never experienced in fifty years was waiting for him: he lost the ability to eat independently and needed nutritional needles to maintain his life. A slight temperature change would directly disrupt the body’s temperature control and regulation system. His body, which had always been as strong as a cow, suddenly became weak. “I might not be able to prolong the length of my life, but I can dominate the thickness of my life.” When I was young, I thought about the way of living, and Wang Lei had a clear understanding of himself: I would rather be able to prolong the length of my life than Babaylan would like to live for thirty years.
So, two months after the operation, Wang Lei reappeared in the clinic and scientific research conference rooms, and even went to the review table for innovative treatment of radioactive enteritis treatment, and then went further to the international community.
In the past 13 months, Wang Lei’s life has been accelerating: Two months after the operation, he lay down on the bed of Babaylan for ten hours to store his physical strength. He went to the 53rd Chicago American Clinical Oncology Conference. As a representative of the main creative team, he gave the only oral report from China to nearly 10,000 experts and scholars from the world’s frontier fields of tumors. This controlled study on neoadjuvant treatment of local advanced rectal cancer is of great value to the treatment guidelines for advanced rectal cancer in countries around the world;
The night before was inhaling oxygen for rescue, and the next day he appeared as usual CinemaAt the preliminary review meeting of the Guangdong Science and Technology Award, he explained the research results of innovative treatment of radioactive enteritis to the reviewers. This achievement eventually won the first prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award. This year, he took the lead in jointly formulating and publishing the “China Radioactive Komiks Expert Consensus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Proctitis in China (2018)”;
With both the role of advanced cancer patients and doctors, he reappeared in the clinic and gave more psychological comfort to those on the road to anti-cancer; at medical seminars every Wednesday afternoon, he often saw him attending the meeting while taking out some drips.
CinemaWang Lei dragged his sick body to practice the ideal of medicine instantly touched many doctors. Many of his medical students moved forward silently for this, working with the teacher to promote the scientific research on radioactive enteritis and practice the ideal of doctors.
Being a doctor who can change the fate of patients
Returned from postdoctoral research in the United States. In 2007, Wang Lei and more than 30 colleagues came to Tianhe District and stationed in a simple three- or four-story building, becoming one of the pioneering cattle in the founding of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
”I love surgery. As soon as I go to the operating table, I love scientific research even more. Life is full of mysteries. There are so many places to innovate in surgical medicine. These subtle changes can directly affect people’s destiny.” Wang Lei said emotionally. Sitting aside and holding her husband’s hand tightly, the wife said that her husband’s persistence and passion for medicine had almost reached the state of “being possessed”.
This decades of dedication has made Wang Lei truly a doctor who can change the fate of patients. He and his teacher, Wang Jianping, the first president of Zhongshan Sixth Hospital, executive vice president of Sun Yat-sen University, and academician of the Royal Academy of Surgery in England, determined the new standard for anal protection surgery for rectal cancer with anal protection of 2 cm from the tooth line, and wrote it into the seventh edition of the national unified textbook “Surgery”; the sexual function protection surgical technology they established has reduced the incidence of sexual dysfunction after rectal cancer from 70% to 15%; the treatment of former patients with middle and late stage rectal cancer is generally referred to the US NCCN guidelines, and preoperative synchronous chemotherapy was performed before surgical resection to create a simple neoadjuvant chemotherapy plan. After surgery, many patients are prone to radioactive damage and quality of life are found.In poor condition, they successfully established a set of preoperative “simple full-quantity chemotherapy” and went to Cinema‘s new treatment plan for rectal cancer with radiotherapy. The US NCC Guidelines cited this research results.
For patients who have received radiotherapy, Professor Wang Lei established a unique surgical procedure – proximal enlarged resection of rectal cancer, and named it “Tianhe Surgery” after Tianhe District where Zhongshan Sixth Hospital is located. Tianhe surgery reduces the incidence of anastomosis-related complications, reduces the chance of anastomosis fistula in patients, and improves survival dignity. In order to further improve the quality of postoperative survival of cancer patients, Wang Lei will study the research method to lock in relatively unpopular radioactive enteritis. The incidence of radioactive enteritis in pelvic radiotherapy is as high as about 20%, among which hemorrhagic radioprotic inflammation is coming and going on repeatedly. The patients are suffering and very painful. A small number of patients are in pain and end up committing suicide at one point. Wang Lei’s team summarized the classification treatment plan for hemorrhagic radioactive enteritis (i.e., the three technologies for the treatment of radioactive enteritis) to solve the problems for these suffering patients.
Wang Lei——
Make every day meaningful
On the day when Wang Lei agreed to accept the interview, his physical condition was not ideal. Just before the interview, he felt that he was in a bad state while lying in bed to store energy. He clearly felt that the body’s temperature control system could no longer be adjusted independently and he was sleeping in the hospital bed with a fever.
After listening to her husband’s story with tears in her eyes, the wife beside her admitted that it was not easy to say these experiences, “We don’t want to be celebrities who are paid attention to.” However, Wang Lei, who is a doctor and treats cancer patients all his life, thought that this experience might give the same cancer patients a positive meaning, he still chose to struggle from the hospital bed and told it for more than two hours in the case of a fever.
Why are you a patient with advanced cancer and still have to work so hard? “If a person cannot accept what is about to happen, it will only make himself and the people around him suffer.” Wang Lei said that life is like a journey, and he is ready to make that mentionPassengers who got off the bus a little earlier may face a bad result in the end, but before they really fall, they still have to be the masters of their own destiny and make every day meaningful.