Free Web NovelChapter 2287: Chapter 2286: Full Firepower
Anything you get your hands on should be used.
If you have to retreat, you must understand how you lost the first wave of offense and defense.
There are three major categories of frontline chemotherapy drugs for digestive tract tumors: 5-fluorouracil, Irinotecan, and Oxaliplatin. 5-fluorouracil has larger side effects on the heart; it’s possible that Teacher Lu couldn’t endure the first chemotherapy session because of this reason.
In the future, as soon as people hear about severe side effects, they immediately think of the so-called low-side-effect superstar targeted drugs.
Targeted drugs have significant limitations and are not particularly effective for duodenal cancer and pancreatic cancer. This weapon’s effectiveness is only average. Returning to second-line drugs, the efficacy of second-line drugs against cancer, confirmed by data, is effective, unlike the third line, which is like Schrödinger’s cat.
Xie Wanying suggested to the teachers: It can be tried.
Based on the information she received from the future, the experimental results of using a combination of second-line drugs have been released. It is confirmed that this drug regimen can significantly inhibit the probability of cancer metastasis and greatly improve the patient’s later survival quality for high-risk patients with re-metastasis like Teacher Lu. This means that even if this weapon can’t kill all enemies, it can exhaust them, aiming to shrink the tumor as much as possible to reduce patient pain and paralysis. Even if it has similar side effects on the heart, it is worth seeing whether the patient can endure it.
"Where did you hear the data from?" Zhang Huayao asked her, his shrewd eyes almost squinting into a stunned straight line.
Even Boss Zhang doesn’t know the experimental results of the drugs being tested. The clinical trial process is double-blind and until the time comes and the results are revealed, no one knows what will happen. How did Student Xie know?
"I guessed," Xie Wanying said. She couldn’t possibly say she learned it from the future, as the teachers would surely think she’s crazy.
"You guessed, how did you guess?"
"The experiment hasn’t been halted; it’s now in the third phase," Xie Wanying replied, "and it’s being conducted in multiple countries, without hearing any significant problems causing a halt. Right now, our primary focus should be the safety of this drug."
As long as this drug is safer for the patient, it’s worth trying. The deciding factor is the extent of the patient’s condition, determining if it’s essential to take a risk. Earlier, she had mentioned the high probability of bone metastasis occurring, which necessitates attempting it.
Furthermore, she added: "The patient isn’t eating. I believe the reason for the patient’s weakened state after having a cold does not explain this situation. I personally tend to suspect that the patient may have a local recurrence. Radiation therapy should be added, and if combined therapy cannot be tolerated, sequential therapy can be adopted."
Sequential Therapy, Combination Therapy—these terms can be simply interpreted to reveal their different meanings. Combination therapy can be easily understood as using two or more therapies simultaneously, while sequential is one therapy followed by another—the aim of both approaches being to enhance and consolidate efficacy.
The patient’s current condition suggests that if they cannot endure the combined full-firepower attack, only sequential can be used. Begin with radiation therapy, followed by a second round of chemotherapy. Or switch to combination therapy if the situation improves.
The doctors present were looking at her in light of these remarks.
Zhang Huayao’s lips curled upwards, his chin slightly nodded, as if indicating something.
Seeing this, the others understood that King of Vicious Talker wasn’t agreeing with or approving her opinions per se, but actually was endorsing her full-firepower medical strategy.
