He is a doctor with pancreatic cancer. He still receives treatment after the operation. He has been working hard for 13 months.
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Pancreatic cancer is called the “king” of cancer. The patient’s survival period is very short. It is the only disease with a disease with a incidence of nearly 1:1 and a death toll. In March last year, Wang Babaylan, 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 equivalent to the end of life, over the past 13 months, Wang Lei has composed a life answer sheet with his steel will, which has impressed many cancer patients and doctors on the front line: patients undergoing palliative surgery have survived for about 7 months, and Wang Lei has fought for 13 months; he can no longer eat independently after the operation, and he is still suffering from it for two months after the operation. Komiks was treated and stood 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…
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
Photo/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Liang Chaoyi Correspondent Jian Wenyang
Panitary cancer was found during a physical examination for long-term back pain
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 increased 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, 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 nightWang Lei tightly held his wife’s hand, and a bottomless abyss appeared in front of him, 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, 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 change in temperature 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 Babaylan is the thickness of my life.” When I was young, I thought about the way of living in life, and Wang Lei had a clear understanding of himself: I would rather prolong the length of my life for three years than just spend thirty years.
So, two months after the operation, dragging this weak body to fight the raging cancer cells in the body anytime and anywhere, Wang Lei reappeared in the clinic and scientific research conference rooms. He even went to the review table for the new treatment research on radioactive enteritis, and went further internationally.
In the past 13 months, Wang Lei’s life has been accelerating:
Two months after the operation, he lie down on the hospital bed for ten hours to store his physical strength. He went to the 53rd Chicago American Clinical Oncology Conference, and served as a representative of the creative team of Babaylan, and gave the only verbal report from the digestive tract to nearly 10,000 experts and scholars from the world’s frontier fields of tumors. This controlled study on the neoadjuvant treatment of advanced rectal cancer is of great value to the treatment guidelines for advanced rectal cancer in 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 Award as usual and explained 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.
Being 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 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, and when I go to the operating table, I love scientific research even more, life is full of mysteries, and there are so many places to innovate in surgical medicine. These subtle changes can directly affect the fate of people.” 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, the first dean of Zhongshan Sixth Hospital, executive vice president of Sun Yat-sen University, and Royal Foreign Studies University of England, and Wang Jianping, an academician of the Science and Technology of Babaylan, 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”; 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 patients with middle and late stage rectal cancer was generally referred to the US NCCN guidelines, and they were subjected to preoperative synchronous chemotherapy and then surgical resection to establish a simple neoadjuvant chemotherapy plan. After the operation, many patients are prone to radioactive damage and survive.The quality is poor, and 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 named it “Tianhe Surgery” after the Tianhe District where Zhongshan Sixth Hospital is located. Tianhe surgery reduces the incidence of anastomotic-related complications, reduces the chance of anastomotic fistula in patients and improves survival dignity. In order to further improve the quality of postoperative survival of cancer patients, Wang Lei has focused his research on 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 fiercely and recursively, and the patients are suffering and very painful. A small number of patients are in pain and end up committing suicide for a while. Wang Lei’s team concludes the classification treatment plan for hemorrhagic radioactive enteritis (i.e., three technologies for radioactive enteritis treatment), solving problems for these painful 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 regulation system could no longer be adjusted independently and was sleeping in the hospital bed with a fever.
After listening to her husband’s story with tears, the wife beside her admitted that it was not easy to tell these experiences. “We don’t want to be celebrities who are being followed.” 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 very painful.” Wang Lei said that life is like a journey, and he is ready to make that offer.Passengers 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.