City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 368 - 368 369 Chemotherapy

368: Chapter 369: Chemotherapy 368: Chapter 369: Chemotherapy That evening, Luo Wenke, the director of another department at Jinling Hospital and Liang Shipeng’s attending physician, personally visited Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing in Shipeng’s private, deluxe hospital room.

Although in the afternoon, He Wencai had conducted a full-body checkup on Liang Shipeng and suspected that he had lung cancer, possibly in the advanced stages, these were only preliminary conclusions drawn from imaging studies and were not yet definitive.

However, by evening, all the test results had come back confirming that Liang Shipeng indeed had lung cancer in the mid-to-late stages, and the cancer cells had spread from the lungs to other parts of the body.

“Mr.

Liang, Mrs.

Liang, I have some bad news to share with you,”

Although Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing had already braced themselves, seeing Luo Wenke and He Wencai coming over, especially when Wenke spoke those words, the couple seemed to have understood.

“Doctor, then how should we treat it?”

Zhang Jing asked.

“In cancer treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical treatment are the three main modalities.

However, radiotherapy and surgical treatment are more appropriate in cases with localized symptoms.

But in Mr.

Liang’s case, where the cancer cells have spread to other parts, I recommend chemotherapy.

The goal is to use chemotherapeutic drugs to kill the cancerous cells and achieve a therapeutic effect,”

Luo Wenke explained.

He was an internal medicine expert, as well as a cancer treatment specialist.

Although the cure rate for cancer, especially for patients in the mid-to-late stages, is very low, and the situation often involved suffering while waiting for death.

Yet, he was still an expert in this field.

Actually, considering Liang Shipeng’s condition, Wenke thought that traditional Chinese medicine treatments might be somewhat better.

But the effects of traditional Chinese medicine were not as immediate as those of Western medicine.

People with money fear death, so saying all this was pointless.

“Chemotherapy?

Won’t that be very painful?”

Liang Shipeng inquired.

“Yes, it will be painful.

That’s a normal phenomenon.

During the process of killing cancer cells, there may also be the death of other normal cells.

But Mr.

Liang, you needn’t worry; Jinling Hospital is one of the country’s leading hospitals in cancer treatment.

If you feel that the level of medical expertise at Jinling Hospital is inadequate, the only other option would be to seek treatment at a major hospital in the United States,”

Jinling Hospital itself was one of the top-rated hospitals in Jiangnan Province and Jinling City, also ranking among the best in the entire country; thus, both Wenke and Wencai were highly confident about this aspect.

If Liang Shipeng still wasn’t satisfied, then the only thing left to do would be to arrange a timely transfer to one of those large hospitals in the U.S.

for treatment.

But Wenke had studied in the United States and returned as a highly skilled practitioner of Western medicine.

He felt that the treatment abroad was very similar to that of Jinling Hospital.

While overseas hospitals had more advanced medical equipment, Jinling Hospital would quickly purchase at a high cost whatever cutting-edge medical technology was available.

Likewise, all the chemotherapeutic drugs used to kill the cancer cells were imported from the United States and were exactly the same as those used there, except that the price was more than ten times higher.

“Then let’s proceed with the treatment,”

Liang Shipeng said.

On the treatment risk disclosure form, Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing each signed their names, indicating that if something were to occur to Liang during the treatment, Jinling Hospital and the attending physician would not be held responsible.

Nowadays, tensions between doctors and patients often arise largely because hospitals and patients sign such risk agreements.

However, hospitals and doctors are also helpless, as they cannot be certain of completely curing a patient’s condition.

In situations such as cancer, which is a terminal illness, with such high mortality rates each year, even with the best medical skills, the cure rate may not be much higher.

After Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing had each signed the risk agreement, Luo Wenke began arranging chemotherapy for Liang Shipeng as well as the medications required for it.

After Luo Wenke left, He Wencai said, “Mr.

Liang, Mrs.

Liang, rest assured, Director Luo is a talented individual who graduated from Harvard and has returned home.

He is an expert in cancer treatment.

Moreover, the chemotherapy drugs being used for Mr.

Liang are all imported from the United States, which is almost equivalent to being treated in the United States.”

Hearing He Wencai say this, Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing felt somewhat relieved.

He Wencai did not stay, and soon left Liang Shipeng’s private room, which was quickly left with only Liang Shipeng and Zhang Jing in it.

When Liang Shipeng found out that he had advanced stage lung cancer, he was mentally prepared and understood that he might not live much longer; at most, he might have two or three months of treatment before he could potentially leave this world.

But during this time, he couldn’t just do nothing and wait for death.

Zhang Jing held her husband’s hand and said, “Old Liang, don’t worry, the doctor will cure you.”

“Life and death are decreed by fate, wealth and honor are in heaven; I accept that,” Liang Shipeng said.

He didn’t want to talk about it anymore, because he knew that life is unpredictable; he never expected to fall ill with such a disease.

At half past nine in the evening, Luo Wenke and two female nurses had prepared the chemotherapy drugs for Liang Shipeng.

Upon entering his private room, the nurses began, as instructed by He Wencai, to inject the prepared chemotherapy drugs directly into Liang Shipeng’s bloodstream through syringes.

The medications then circulated through the body’s vasculature to the lungs and even to other regions where the cancer cells had spread.

This is the advantage that neither surgery nor radiation therapy possesses.

Chemotherapy can deliver the drugs to various parts of the body through the bloodstream, making it the most suitable treatment when there is spread of cancer cells.

However, if the cancer is still in its early stages and the cancer cells have not spread, it is considered localized, and surgery can be used to remove the cancer cells and prevent the spread, while radiation therapy can, without surgery, kill localized cancer cells through local treatment.

If the cancer has spread throughout the body, the body’s cells cannot withstand radiation therapy; a patient may not even tolerate two rounds of radiation therapy before healthy cells are killed, though the cancer cells have not been eradicated.

Initially, Liang Shipeng felt no discomfort from the chemotherapy, but soon he began to feel uneasy all over, including nausea and a desire to vomit.

Luo Wenke looked at Liang Shipeng and said, “Mr.

Liang, Mrs.

Liang, chemotherapy does have side effects, such as vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and even hair loss, all of which are within the normal range.

However, if you feel too uncomfortable, you can immediately contact the nurses, and then contact me.”

This was Liang Shipeng’s first chemotherapy session, and they planned to see how effective it was, then administer the second chemotherapy treatment after 21 days or a month.

However, if the situation becomes serious in the meantime, with large-scale spread of cancer cells, doctors obviously cannot wait too long, and may have to administer the second chemotherapy session after just half a month.