As the 17th National Breast Cancer Conference and the 17th Shanghai International Breast Cancer Forum were held, the first national breast cancer patient rehabilitation salon - Fudan University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Yankang Salon celebrates his 20th birthday.
20, Yankang Salon has been aimed at "caring, supporting, mutual assistance, and promoting rehabilitation". With the leadership and assistance of Professor Shen Zhenzhou and Professor Shao Zhimin , relying on the support of the hospital's professional team, while providing support, guidance and helping breast cancer patients, it has built a platform for close communication between doctors and patients, so that the "Wing Angel" can find a "heart home" at the beginning of the hospital's medical treatment.
has become the first breast cancer rehabilitation patient club in the country
Yankang Salon, advocated and initiated by Shen Zhenzhou, a tenured professor at the Cancer Hospital, began with a heartwarming story more than 20 years ago. At that time, Professor Shen Zhenzhou performed breast cancer surgery on a patient. After the operation, the patient wanted to express material thanks, but was politely declined by Professor Shen Zhenzhou. Finally, she proposed the idea of donating 1 million yuan to the hospital for discipline development and construction.
Professor Shen Zhenzhou found that at that time, the rehabilitation organization for breast cancer patients with a large scale, with hospitals as the main body, had not yet been established, and many patients were unable to get out of the physical and mental pressure brought by the disease, and even had many misunderstandings about the treatment of the disease and returning to society... It seriously affected the subsequent rehabilitation. For this reason, a mutual aid organization for breast cancer patients was planned to help breast cancer patients return to society. The initiative of
was quickly supported by donors and hospitals. In 2003, Yankang Salon, the first domestic rehabilitation patient club with a hospital as the main body, closely combining "medical, nursing and patient" and a trinity, was officially established.
In 2015, the first full-process breast cancer management platform in the country - "Yankange Follow-up", was released at the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University. The platform establishes individual follow-up files for breast cancer patients and opens green channels for online and offline rehabilitation follow-up, covering a variety of functions such as "Yankang Academy", rehabilitation function exercise. Since its launch, the platform has reached millions of views, and tens of thousands of breast cancer patients have benefited from the platform... This is another transformation and upgrading of Yankang Salon's "professional support to empower patients with full life cycle management ".
Professor Shao Zhimin, director of the Department of Breast Surgery and Director of the Department of Major Surgery at the Oncology Hospital, said that with the development of technology and the improvement of screening awareness, breast cancer has become a preventable and curable chronic disease. The annual breast surgery volume of cancer hospitals exceeded 8,100 in 2021, and the overall survival rate of 10 years reached 82.6%, of which the 5-year survival rate of early patients reached 93.6%, and the overall diagnosis and treatment level was shoulder-to-shoulder at the level of developed countries. To enable breast cancer patients to survive and live better, we must also advocate all-round and full life cycle management of breast cancer patients.
comes from the support of clinical professional technology, allowing Yankang Salon to continuously improve its energy level in serving patients and society. From the free medical consultations of experts and the compilation of popular science books at the beginning of its establishment, to the public welfare popular science forums and "Yankang Academy", to the physical management and functional exercise of breast cancer patients, clinical research and practice of patient rehabilitation... The multi-disciplinary comprehensive diagnosis and treatment team of breast cancer led by Professor Shen Zhenzhou and Professor Shao Zhimin provides patients in Yankang Salon with all-round care for the body, mind, spirit and society throughout the treatment cycle, and the connotation of the salon has been further deepened.
According to statistics, the number of salon patients has grown to 90,000; the free medical team of Yankang expert medical consultations has spread across many provinces and cities in my country; Yankang's "Breast Health Physical Examination Car" has been opened in many communities in Shanghai; the monthly "Yankang Academy" has been opened for more than 100 periods; since the epidemic, the salon has launched more than 200 online popular science and free medical consultation activities, benefiting more than 10,000 people; nearly 10 popular science books on rehabilitation for breast cancer patients were released; the empowerment of Internet technology has also continuously expanded the online functions of "Yankang+", and the patient mutual assistance system of salon patients has become more mature.
Twenty years of "Mutual Help" gathered into a harbor of love in Yankang salon, breast cancer patients are familiar with Hu Zhichu's story. 16 years ago, Hu Zhichu underwent breast cancer surgery treatment in the breast surgery department of the Oncology Hospital. During the treatment period, she began to participate in the patient mutual aid activities of Yeonkang Salon.In this warm big family, Hu Zhichu not only got out of the haze of illness, but also opened up his identity as a patient to the leader of Yankang rehabilitation volunteers.
Patient visits are a model of Yankang Salon’s “peer support” model. For more than a decade, Hu Zhichu and Yan Kang Salon sisters have entered the treatment ward every Wednesday to visit patients, regardless of the weather. They use their personal experience to persuade new patients to overcome their psychological fears and change their mindset to fight the disease. Hu Zhichu said: "Even if the 'Winged Angel' has fewer wings, he must live a good life."
Since 2006, Yankang Salon has established a patient mutual aid association and set up multiple working groups such as patient visiting groups, activity groups, publicity groups, and mobile library . Rich and diverse patient mutual assistance services to help new patients receive better treatment and rehabilitation, and form a "love cycle" for rehabilitated patients to join Yankang Salon to continue serving other new patients. Over the past decade, the Patient Mutual Aid Association has completed more than 30,000 visits to patients, helping a large number of breast cancer patients and their families to open up the "knot" of treatment and recovery.
In addition, Yankang Choir, Yankang Dance Troupe, Yankang Fashion Performance Team, Yankang Handmade Painting Team... Several teams of patient teams were established in Yankang Salon one after another. In Yankang's big family, salon patients convey heartwarming "positive energy" on various doctor-patient gala stages with confidence and style.
20 years, love has gathered, and the influence of Yankang Salon has continued to expand. The salon patients not only carried out various domestic patient exchange activities, but also covered the network of mutual assistance to the international community, and successively carried out large-scale public welfare exchange activities with breast cancer patient groups in the United States, Malaysia , South Korea, Japan, Sweden , Hong Kong, and Taiwan. More and more well-known people in the society joined Yankang Salon and became health ambassadors to jointly illuminate the life journey of breast cancer patients.
question diagram illustration: In December 2006, Professor Shen Zhenzhou cheered the patients at the Yankang Salon doctor-patient welcome party, and encouraged everyone to live a beautiful life and embrace a healthy life.
Source: Author: Gu Yong Zhong Xuan
