Free Web NovelChapter 2285: Chapter 2285: Knowing Quite a Lot
His elderly mother’s illness is one that any doctor knows has a poor prognosis. Because of this, he and his mother were very resistant to undergoing surgery at the beginning, not wanting the patient to endure a surgery during her final stretch of life.
The one who convinced him and Teacher Lu, some say, was her. Xie Wanying certainly does not admit it was herself; what persuades patients is always the rapid, impressive progress of medical technology, which has little to do with the individual doctor but is the crystallization of human wisdom. Therefore, the more expert a doctor is clinically, the more humble they become before the patient’s gratitude.
Though the patient experienced a minor complication, the surgery was very successful, with the local tumor considered cleanly removed. Following this, the patient’s condition entered a whole new stage, and doctors and patients must continue their daily tactical battle against the tumor.
Because there was already pulmonary metastasis and lymph node metastasis discovered, the patient’s five-year survival rate was estimated to be quite low. As He Xiangyu mentioned, everyone had prepared mentally before the surgery. Although the operation was said to have been very thorough, the doctors knew it was half-palliative surgery because they couldn’t completely remove all the tumor cells in the patient’s body; the cancer cells had already metastasized.
These metastatic cancer cells in the patient can’t be removed through surgery, so the medical offensive can only utilize other medical strategies, typically chemotherapy drugs. Unfortunately, due to varying patient conditions, like Teacher Lu who couldn’t tolerate halfway through chemo and had to stop. It was said the chemotherapy drugs affected the patient’s heart, which wasn’t in great shape to begin with. Therefore, they considered cardiac surgery to improve the heart, but then suddenly discovered the patient’s teeth were too bad for heart surgery, resulting in yet another delay.
The attack strategy repeatedly encountered setbacks with no progress, as if helplessly watching the patient slowly sink like a drowning person to the lake bottom. Anyone seeing this would feel anxious and frustrated.
Boss Zhang couldn’t possibly not be worried; if he wasn’t anxious, he wouldn’t have rushed to send food over.
Can chemotherapy drugs be used again?
"I suspect that’s the case. Teacher Zhang, you likely have inquired overseas about the latest experimental drugs, always monitoring their clinical data to see if it might be used for the patient," Xie Wanying said.
Top experts have far better connections than ordinary people. For someone like Boss Zhang, seeking the latest international drugs wouldn’t be difficult. It’s merely a question of whether Boss Zhang will or will not pursue it.
Xie Wanying and Senior Tao have different thoughts. Despite Boss Zhang’s sharp tongue, his heart isn’t bad—it’s actually quite good. He should have been seeking drug information for the patient before her surgery.
As a top-notch expert, with the patient being his own mother, Boss Zhang is bound to be even more cautious in making decisions. Experimental drugs are called experimental for a reason; they treat patients like guinea pigs in essence. Generally speaking, one only volunteers for guinea pig treatment when there’s no other option. As long as his elderly mother isn’t at this stage yet, Zhang Huayao wouldn’t use them.
Listening to her speak, Zhang Huayao squinted his eyes and tapped his fingers on the table: "You know quite a lot, don’t you?"
Student Xie has had a knack for figuring out the teachers’ minds not just for a day or two, and now it seems she’s making her way to Boss Zhang’s mind.
Xie Wanying never dared claim she could figure out a teacher’s mind; she simply speaks the truth.
The information teachers can obtain by reaching out to foreign experts for help is likely much more than what she, a person from the future, possesses. She, from the future, wasn’t a clinical expert back then and couldn’t obtain all the drug experimental data. However, she might have the advantage of knowing from the future whether these clinical trials that need time to yield results have indeed been successful or not.
