My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 1222 - 482: Director Level Medical Collaboration, Dr. Pu’s Request (2)
Previously on My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points...
In the past, a huge team toiling through the entire night could barely manage two major operations. Today, that count has doubled.
This brings tremendous advantages to the growth of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Zhou Can's rewards from this night are substantial as well. Ever since his Incision Skill reached Level 6, during the process of cutting out tumors or tissues that might be cancerous, he's picked up on a faint bond between the Wound Cleaning Skill and the Incision Skill.
Such a bond seems truly wondrous.
When performing lesion removal, the Wound Cleaning Skill allows him to vaguely detect if any diseased tissue remains around the cut area.
For example, while excising a lymph node, he perceived that a nearby major blood vessel was impacted.
As this sensation was entirely new to him, a brief hesitation gripped him.
Considering his duty to the patient, he activated the magnifier in his glasses to meticulously inspect that blood vessel segment. There, he uncovered a tiny, barely visible mark. Through several inspections and matches against cancerous vessels he'd removed earlier, relying on his surgical knowledge, he verified it.
In the end, he concluded that this blood vessel part probably showed initial cancerous alterations.
Upon removing it, he swiftly called the pathology department for examination.
Before long, the results confirmed the vessel truly bore cancerous changes.
At that instant, Zhou Can surged with intense excitement.
Without his Incision Skill hitting Level 6 and forming that tie with the Wound Cleaning Skill to spot the vessel's problem, even the finest detection equipment worldwide would struggle to identify such early cancerous vessels.
Don't overlook a cancerous vessel like that; if the operation fails to excise it fully, the cancer can return swiftly.
Keep in mind, cancer acts like a ruthless weed.
Even just a root fragment or a lone leaf can regrow and rapidly expand into a massive expanse.
So, the ability Zhou Can now holds carries profound importance.
It makes certain that cancer tissues get completely cleared out in cancer operations.
Why do countless patients with malignant tumors show up at clinics in late phases with spread cancer cells? The doctors explain to them that surgery won't work anymore.
The reason lies in the doctors' operation insights: procedures after the cancer has spread lack real value.
Cut out the main tumor, and the minor ones will expand in no time.
Besides inflicting greater suffering on the patient and exhausting the family's money, it scarcely lengthens the patient's days.
Instead of meeting certain defeat that wrecks both family and finances, it's preferable for the patient to relish tasty meals and beverages at home, cherishing life's closing chapter alongside relatives.
This truly reflects the doctor's compassion.
Still, at times, relatives and patients fail to grasp it and lash out at the doctor, shouting "You’re a quack; you can’t even perform this surgery. We’ll find an expert doctor who can." as they depart with cutting remarks.
In those scenarios, doctors typically endure the abuse without a word.
Stepping out of the operating room, the time read 11:42 PM, sooner than the anticipated finish for the surgery.
The Incision Skill upgrade for Zhou Can had notably quickened the entire procedure.
"Hopefully, the cancerous tissues in this patient’s body have been thoroughly cleaned," Zhou Can could merely hope in silence.
After the operation, this patient will surely require radiotherapy to reinforce the results.
Radiotherapy and chemotherapy continue as the primary standard approaches to combat cancer.
Chemo, above all, has earned a villainous image.
A lot of individuals are convinced that chemotherapy inevitably leads to death, provides no help, and wrecks the body. This notion is firmly embedded in the minds of numerous everyday folks. The moment a doctor brings up chemotherapy, they reject it outright with vigorous head shakes.
One can only note that every matter features dual facets.
Upsides always accompany downsides.
At its core, chemotherapy employs chemical substances to destroy cancer cells and halt any comeback.
It functions as a two-edged weapon; in eliminating cancer cells, the drugs poison cells too, breaking apart cell frameworks, primarily striking those that multiply rapidly, and posing risks to crucial organs such as the liver, kidneys, heart, and lungs. Should these organs take heavy hits, patients could face organ breakdown or even perish.
Additionally, chemotherapy dampens the body's defenses, posing another serious threat.
Those patients fresh from chemotherapy need to stay extra alert to any infections.
A simple cold might turn fatal.
Even with all these hazards, the proven effectiveness of chemotherapy in wiping out cancer cells stands accepted.
To say the least, it guarantees cancer cell annihilation without immediate lethality, offering a viable therapy option.
Besides, given the incredible resilience of cancer cells, just one round of chemotherapy can't eradicate them entirely.
It only manages to take out a portion.
That's why repeated chemotherapy cycles are essential to reach a somewhat effective treatment result.
Consider how, for those already frail, pushing through two or three additional chemotherapies becomes nearly impossible to bear.
This explains part of why chemotherapy carries such infamy.
The strategy of decimating eight hundred foes at the cost of a thousand own troops isn't something everyone can withstand.
Fortunately, plenty of sophisticated drugs are out there or being developed, including targeted therapies and immune-based cancer remedies. Drugs that engineer super T-cell fighters fit into this group.
The body's immune cells fall into two kinds—T cells and B cells—with T cells serving as reconnaissance units and B cells resembling strike squads with missiles.
Provided T cells locate the adversary, B cells command a myriad of tactics to obliterate it.