The female doctor was suffering from advanced breast cancer, and there was no cure for her, and she went to the United States for medical treatment, and the treatment process was really speechless
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The female doctor has advanced breast cancer and has no medicine to use and can only go to the United States for medical treatment, but the treatment process is really speechless.
In March 2017, 33-year-old Yan Hongwei was diagnosed with advanced triple negative breast cancer.
Yan Hongwei, a native of Shanxi, graduated with a Ph.D. in 2011 and later worked at a university in Shanghai.
She and her husband Wu Zaibin took out a loan to buy a house in Shanghai and gave birth to a lovely daughter, but the sudden cancer disrupted all the peaceful and happy lives.
Triple negative breast cancer is the most dangerous type of breast cancer, and there is only one way to go. In order to save her life, she could only cut off her breasts and undergo chemotherapy, 52 weeks a year, and Yan Hongwei spent 36 weeks in chemotherapy.
In the year of fighting cancer, all the drugs that can be used have been used, and the blood vessels are almost gone, but the tumor has not only not shrunk by half a point, but has even metastasized to the lungs, and the cancer cells are constantly growing wildly.
The doctor told Yan Hongwei that the choice of drugs in China is now very limited. With no medicine available, Yan Hongwei fell into deep despair.
In the end, Yan Hongwei and her husband decided to go to the United States for medical treatment, which is 24,000 US dollars pooled by the whole family, which is estimated to be only enough for one diagnosis and treatment in the United States.
In order to treat the disease, the couple almost spent all their savings, and this time they went to the United States, so to speak, to find the last glimmer of hope.
Yan Hongwei's mother: "She borrowed, she was going to mortgage the house, she was going to sell the house, I said you go first, go and see, I can't help it." ”
In January 2018, the couple came to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, which is the world's top cancer hospital.
For patients without medical insurance, the cost is also surprisingly high, and an ordinary blood routine test costs 6,000 yuan.
The results of the examination came out, and the doctor believed that Yan Hongwei should not be a typical three-yin symptom, but to confirm the diagnosis, a lung puncture examination was required, and to do this examination, they had to wait another 10 days.
There was no way, the couple could only rent a house to settle down first.
On the 17th day after arriving in the United States, Yan Hongwei was finally able to have a puncture, but just before the operation, the hospital informed him that the account balance was insufficient and that he still needed to pay more than 2,000 US dollars.
Yan Hongwei's husband: "It's so strange, they are fooling around, we don't have any treatment at all, we only saw a few doctors, and two tubes of blood were drawn, how could it be that all the 24,000 US dollars were spent, and all of them were tested for blood and urine, and then I saw a doctor." ”
The piercing was done, and then there was a long wait.
On the 39th day of coming to the United States, the puncture results have not yet come out, Yan Hongwei and her husband can't help but sigh at the "efficiency" of the work here: "Before I started to get serious, I had already thrown so much money in, and I didn't eat a single pill, and here, I have thrown in more than 100,000 yuan." ”
The money brought had already been spent, but nothing was found, and the treatment plan in his heart was even more far away, and finally Yan Hongwei decided to go home.
Yan Hongwei: "I was expected to take a plan, but I waited for a month, I didn't get a plan, and I was sent back by the doctor, who suggested that I go back, he thinks that your child is so young, you should be by her side more." ”
Maybe the doctor's words are a hint. However, the day before returning to China, Yan Hongwei suddenly received a message from the attending doctor, and the puncture report showed that Yan Hongwei's lung metastases were no longer triple negative, which meant that she could use endocrine therapy to treat cancer.
Seeing this result, Yan Hongwei was very excited.
But when she returned to the domestic hospital with the diagnosis report, reality hit her hard.
Doctor: "It's clear that it's positive, isn't it?"
Yan Hongwei: "Yes. ”
Doctor: "Of course...... You made it in the United States, but it is the only isolated evidence, contrary to all our inspections, then we can only think that it is not a problem with the detection. ”
Because the results on both sides were completely opposite, the hospital decided to give Yan Hongwei a full body examination and then determine the specific treatment plan.
The next day, the results came in.
Doctor: "We still agree that your tumor is a triple-negative tumor, and the next step of treatment is chemotherapy." ”
With the diagnosis result in his hand, Yan Hongwei's heart was unprecedentedly desperate.
"This is the conclusion, ER-negative lesions, the lungs have grown to 2.2, and then negative. ”
A week later, Yan Hongwei decided to use the diagnosis of an American doctor first, and she went to Hong Kong to buy targeted drugs that had not yet been marketed in the mainland.
Three boxes of palbocitinib cost 90,000 yuan and more than 1,400 yuan for a drug, which is almost Yan Hongwei's salary for a year. For two months, taking one pill a day, she longed for a miracle every day.
Soon, it was time for the 6th review.
Doctor: "In terms of the largest and second largest lesions, it should be progressive, and targeted therapy is a failure for her." ”
Yan Hong stood in the hospital hall in a daze, she didn't know, how to go down this road?
"I don't understand why, it's like another death sentence. ”
All the methods that can be tried have been tried, but the results are all in vain, and Yan Hongwei has a sense of powerlessness that he can't control his life.
The follow-up treatment is still based on chemotherapy, and Yan Hongwei no longer seems to have hope for the results.
At 16:49 on March 18, 2019, Yan Hongwei still left this world.
At two o'clock in the morning on the 20th, her husband Wu Zaibin posted a Weibo.
"Hanging the most beloved person on the wall with my own hands, all the beauty is frozen into cold photos, the sadness gushing out from the depths of my soul cannot be suppressed at all, I tell myself, there is another parallel world, where there is no disease, just like we once were, we will be very happy. ”
Cheng Shi is the Chief Economist of ICBC International and a director of the China Chief Economist Forum, and this article is a series of music and economic essays written by Dr. Cheng Shi for China Foreign Exchange magazine.
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