Last night (7th), the theme of the TVB program "Early D Knows Early D Medicine" was breast cancer, and the "eldest lady" Lin Shumin was found to share her experience. Clinical Oncologist Dr Sze Chun-kin will also explain how to use the four tips for self-examination, so that patients can seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Lam was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 when she felt a lump in her hand about a position below her collarbone.
At the beginning of Lin Shumin's medical treatment, the doctors were optimistic: "Just say that if it is water, you can leave after pumping it out." As a result, I went to take an ultrasound photo, and I knew that there was something wrong with it! The doctor was immediately silent, and after the mammogram and ultrasound, the doctor told me, 'Why don't we do a biopsy,' that is, take the tissue." ”
The nurse explained to Lin Shumin that if the coconut silk tissue was drawn, there would be a high chance of breast cancer, and then three injections were drawn all of the coconut silk tissue, and she was finally diagnosed with early breast cancer, and the tumor was about 1.8 cm.
Lin Shumin once asked the sky: Why me? The doctor encouraged her: "You will not die, you are so far from death, but you must take time to face it." ”
After adjusting her mentality, Lin Shumin actively accepted treatment, taking a total of four injections of chemotherapy drugs and 18 injections of targeted drugs, and then went to the hospital every day to receive radiotherapy after completing chemotherapy.
After recovering, Lin Shumin now pays more attention to her diet, she talked about her poor eating habits in the past, eating one kind of food almost every day - luncheon meat, only to learn that it is harmful to the body, which may be one of the causes of cancer.
Side effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer
Lin Shumin shared that there were side effects when she was doing chemotherapy at that time, "On the 13th day after the first injection, my head began to itch, and I itched so much that I couldn't stand it, and then I scratched my hair, because it fell off as soon as I grabbed it, and it was comfortable to fall off." In addition, her heart had side effects due to targeted drugs, so she relied on running to recover her body.
In her early years, she also shared that she was tormented during the chemotherapy process, and she was in shock during the whole process of four injections of chemotherapy, and once her face turned black, the doctor immediately rescued her, and the most obvious side effect was memory loss, and it would break the film.