He is a doctor with pancreatic cancer. He is still receiving treatment after the operation. He has been working hard for 13 months. Looking for good people in Guangzhou. The civilian heroes around Cinema are known as the “king” of Komiks. The survival period of Cinema patients is very short and is the only disease with a disease with a incidence of nearly 1:1 and a death toll. In March last year, Wang Lei, deputy director of Sun Yat-sen University’s Sixth Affiliated Hospital, who has devoted his life to fighting against colorectal cancer, 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 who are rushing 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. Two months after the operation, he still treats the patients, 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 such a time of life and death, 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
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Panitary cancer was found during a physical examination for long-term back pain
2Cinema 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 hospital staff. 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, clinical, scientific research, and hospital management are 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, it is facing a “joke” of fate.
When he returned to the Babaylan house that night, Wang Lei held his wife’s hand tightly, and there seemed to be a bottomless abyss in front of Komiks, and a sense 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, Babaylan80% 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 has 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 burn for three years than just spend 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 further went international.
In the past 13 months, Wang Lei’s life has been accelerating:
Two months after the operation, he lay down on the hospital bed for ten hours to store his physical strength. He walked towards the 53rd Chicago American Clinical Oncology Conference. As a representative of the main creative team, he gave the only oral report from China in the field of gastrointestinal tract to nearly 10,000 experts and scholars from the world’s frontier 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 various countries around the world;
He was still inhaling oxygen for rescue the night before. The next day, he appeared at the preliminary review meeting of the Guangdong Science and Technology Babaylan Award as usual, explaining the research results of innovative treatment of radioactive enteritis to the review experts. 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 Expert Consensus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Radioprotic Technitis (2018)” with more than 30 experts across the country;
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.
Wang 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, and worked with the teacher to promote the scientific research on radioactive enteritis and practice the ideal of doctors.
To be a doctor who can change the fate of patients
Returned from the American postdoctoral research, Wang Lei and more than 30 colleagues came to Tianhe District in 2007, stationed in a three- or four-story simple building, becoming one of the sixth Affiliated Babaylan Hospital founded by 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 toothed line, and wrote it into the seventh edition of the national unified textbook “Surgery”. Their sexual function protection surgical technology was established to reduce the incidence of sexual dysfunction after rectal cancer from 70% to 15%; the previous treatment of patients with middle and late stage rectal cancer generally refers to the US NCCN guidelines, and preoperative synchronous chemotherapy was performed before surgical resection to establish a simple neoadjuvant chemotherapy plan. Many patients are prone to radioactive damage after surgery.Due to poor quality of life, they successfully established a new preoperative “simple full-quantity chemotherapy” and radiotherapy treatment plan. The US NCCN guidelines quoted this research result.
For patients who have received radiotherapy, Professor Wang Lei established a unique surgical procedure – proximal enlarged resection of rectal cancer, and was named “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 life after surgery in cancer patients, Wang Lei focused his research on the radioactive dysfunction of Komiks on unpopular Komiks. The incidence of radioactive enteritis in pelvic radiotherapy is as high as about 20%, among which hemorrhagic radiologic inflammation is coming fiercely and recursively. 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 he agreed to accept the interview, Wang Lei’s physical condition was not ideal. Just a few hours before the interview, he felt that his physical condition 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 is unacceptable to 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. He is ready to be the passenger who gets off a little early. Although the final result may be a bad result, he still has to do his own destiny before he really falls down.The master of the day should make every day meaningful. Cinema