Patients suffering from cancer will place their hopes on doctors, hoping that through the doctor's experience and surgical treatment, they can cure the cancer and save their lives.
But if a doctor who has been working on cancer all his life contracted cancer, how would he feel?
Hua Yiwei, the former director of the Department of Surgery at Beijing Military Region General Hospital , unfortunately suffered from cancer and passed away after fighting the cancer for a year. One of his reflections before his death is worth a closer look.
1. A 73-year-old oncologist suffered from cancer and reflected on his deathbed
Hua Yiwei, former director of surgery at Beijing Military Region General Hospital , is a doctor who has been on the road to preventing and treating cancer for 73 years. He has seen too many things in his life cancer patients, and has performed countless operations on countless cancer patients.
He saved many people's lives, and he also felt sad and depressed because of his own inability. However, for such a compassionate doctor, the claws of cancer still reached out to him.
Dr. Hua Yiwei was diagnosed with gastric cancer , and it was already in the advanced stage when he was diagnosed. The most sober people suffer the most. According to Dr. Hua Yiwei’s many years of experience in treating cancer, the only surgery available now is total gastrectomy, which may save his life.
After the operation, Dr. Hua Yiwei suffered severe adverse reactions from the total gastrectomy. Reflux tortured him. He could only lie in bed, silently enduring the burning of his esophagus and the corrosion of his throat to the point of swelling and pain. . The Eustachian tube system that is connected together shows signs of inflammation.
However, Dr. Hua Yiwei clearly knows that such torture is just the beginning for cancer patients.
Especially for advanced cancer patients like Dr. Hua Yiwei, after surgery, they must continue chemotherapy to prevent cancer cells from spreading to surrounding tissues. Overcame the difficulty of surgery and stepped into the hell of chemotherapy .
Dr. Hua Yiwei needs to undergo intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy. He has to endure the high temperature of 41 degrees in the abdominal cavity for one and a half hours. The subsequent recovery will also make cancer patients miserable, and they can't wait to eat painkillers. eat. However, such intraperitoneal thermal chemotherapy, which requires to be performed 8 times a month, is like a never-ending nightmare.
The most despairing thing is that even after experiencing such pain, Hua Yiwei's condition did not improve at all, and even worsened. He had to undergo a second abdominal surgery.
Unfortunately, the goddess of luck still did not side with Dr. Hua Yiwei. After the second surgery, due to a severe decline in immunity, the surgery was complicated by a severe abdominal infection.
Dr. Hua Yiwei also knew that this time the disease would not let him go. During the last days when he was lying on the hospital bed, Dr. Hua Yiwei was very happy and said to his students:
"Surgery for cancer patients is really important." It’s too painful. The ultimate goal of treating a patient’s cancer is to eliminate the cancer, but it should be noted that the patient’s quality of life and hope are the most important, and cancer prevention is the top priority. ”
2. Gastric cancer. Pay attention and don’t delay it until the late stage
Professor Guo Yong, director of the Department of Oncology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , said that the reason why the cure rate of gastric cancer in our country is significantly lower than that in countries with the same high incidence of gastric cancer, such as South Korea and Japan, is because our country has many When a small number of gastric cancer patients are diagnosed, they already have mid-stage gastric cancer or even late-stage gastric cancer.
The low cure rate of gastric cancer is closely related to its late discovery.
1. What are the causative factors of gastric cancer?
The three major factors that cause gastric cancer are environmental factors, dietary factors, and genetic factors. Among them, environmental factors and genetic factors are more difficult to change, because Asia is a high-incidence area for gastric cancer and cannot be avoided. Moreover, gastric cancer patients often show family aggregation , and there may be several patients with digestive tract tumors in the same family. The incidence of gastric cancer in immediate relatives of gastric cancer patients is four times higher than that of normal people.
Dietary factors are among the three major pathogenic factors of gastric cancer, the one most likely to be changed by ourselves.
Data shows that the correlation between high-salt diet and gastric cancer is as high as 16.6%, and our country's salt intake is generally more than twice the recommended amount (6g) of the World Health Organization .
2. Early symptoms of gastric cancer
Many patients diagnosed with gastric cancer have said that they have experienced varying degrees of abdominal discomfort , especially upper abdominal discomfort . Patients with early gastric cancer may experience burning pain in the stomach , or There is a dull pain in the upper abdomen. It is especially easy to feel full after eating.
Because the lesion is in the stomach, it actually has the greatest impact on the patient's diet. Many patients say that in the early stages of gastric cancer, they will suddenly show anorexia and lose interest in eating anything. As the condition progresses, you may experience nausea, acid reflux, or even vomiting.
Also, gastric cancer generally causes varying degrees of gastrointestinal bleeding . If the amount of bleeding is relatively small, symptoms of occult blood in the stool can be detected during a stool test. If the amount of bleeding is large, can be seen with the naked eye. Tarry stools , and even vomiting blood are also possible.
3. How to prevent gastric cancer?
If you want to prevent gastric cancer, you must first change your bad eating habits and dietary structure. Good eating habits must do these four things:
Eat three meals on time;
Don't overeat;
Eat breakfast every day;
Choose healthy food combinations.
The second step is to prevent Helicobacter pylori infection . This bacterium can cause gastritis , gastric ulcer , duodenal ulcer , etc., and is a high-risk factor for gastric cancer.
When eating with others, you can choose public chopsticks and use high-temperature sterilized tableware . This is a protective measure for yourself and others.
Once again, it is necessary to quit smoking and drinking . This is already a commonplace topic. Many people think that all kinds of tobacco and alcohol are bad health information, and they still drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. A healthy body is definitely not something that can be seen, but is protected by being down-to-earth.
Finally, if you want to prevent early gastric cancer, you must undergo regular screening . Now many hospitals are also promoting screening for gastric cancer and other cancers. This is indeed one of the effective ways to reduce cancer mortality.
Electronic gastroscopy screening is the current gold standard for diagnosing gastric cancer . People over 40 years old are recommended to undergo screening once a year. If you are in an area with a high incidence of gastric cancer, Helicobacter pylori infection, or people with precancerous diseases in the stomach, you can Increase the number of screenings as appropriate.
I believe that Dr. Hua Yiwei’s story has made many people feel sad and regretful, but I also hope that Dr. Hua Yiwei’s story can educate and inspire doctors, ordinary people and patients. For our own health, for the happiness of those who care about us, and for the carefreeness of others we want to protect, aren’t these the reasons why we should do a good job in disease prevention?
