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Xu Linyou is a well-known thoracic surgeon in mainland China, who has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and has cured countless patients. He is a low-key person who always puts the safety of his patients first. The medical profession is usually dealing with life and death, and the clinical work pressure is very high, coupled with the shortage of medical resources in the mainland, medical staff are often in a state of shortage, which also causes the problem of very heavy work tasks of doctors.
Dr. Xu Linyou is no exception, he has always been known as the "Desperate Saburo" in the hospital. It is almost normal for him to go to work at 8 a.m. and leave work at 12 p.m., and it is extremely normal for him to see dozens of patients for most of the day, sometimes even having to perform more than 30 surgeries in a month. Perennial overwork and wear and tear have finally buried a huge hidden danger to his health.
On January 17, 2011, Xu Linyou came to work in the hospital as usual every day, treating patients. On this day, he had just finished surgery and was about to go back to the dormitory to rest for a while, but before he reached the door of the dormitory, his eyes suddenly went dark, and the whole person fell directly to the ground and fainted......
When he woke up again, he was already lying on the CT machine in the imaging department. After the examination, Xu Linyou naturally asked his colleagues how the results were. As a result, his colleagues avoided him a little, and when asked, they said that the results had not yet come out. Out of a doctor's intuition, Xu Linyou had a bad premonition in his heart. Sure enough, he was transferred to a pulmonary hospital that night. The results were confirmed as advanced lung adenocarcinoma with brain metastases. Experts told him that a conservative estimate is no more than three months at most.
The news exploded in his mind like a ticking time bomb. Xu Linyou felt as if a white light flashed in front of him, and the ringing in his ears buzzed. Although he has long been accustomed to life and death in clinical practice, when the news of this death trial falls on him, Xu Linyou still can't be indifferent after all.
Lung cancer is a malignant tumor of the lungs that occurs in the trachea, bronchial mucosa, or glands. It is classified into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and small cell carcinoma. According to the data of the Continental Cancer Center, there are about 828,100 new cases of lung cancer and 657,000 deaths in the mainland, ranking first among all cancers.
Smoking is one of the most important causes of lung cancer. However, people who do not smoke are also at risk of developing lung cancer. In fact, environmental pollution, household fumes, and secondhand smoke are also high risk factors for lung cancer. For example, the most common household pollution, after the renovation of a new house, is not fully ventilated. When the decoration materials are substandard, the harmful substances in the air will cause direct damage to the human lungs, thus inducing the risk of cancer.
In addition, occupational exposure, second-hand smoke, household smoke pollution and other factors will also increase the probability of lung cancer. When the body has frequent coughing, bloodshot sputum, hoarseness, chest and back pain, it is necessary to be vigilant and go to the hospital in time to rule out the risk of disease.
Xu Linyou deeply knows that cancer patients must have a heart that wants to live. If the heart is dead, it will be difficult to cure even if the gods come. Despite the bad news, he quickly adapted and decided to pursue treatment. On the advice of his doctor, he adopted a dual treatment policy of targeted drugs and radiotherapy drugs. After 2 months, the lesions in his lungs were almost completely gone, and the lesions in his brain were shrinking. What is exciting is that he broke the prediction of experts and successfully survived the danger period for 3 months.
With the passage of time, Xu Linyou's physical condition is getting better day by day. He set himself a goal to survive for three years. However, what is surprising is that he not only lived for 3 years, but even lived for 10 years, and in July 2014, he returned to work to continue to operate on patients, which is completely different from ordinary people. From being initially judged to live less than 100 days, it turned out to be 10 years of life, which is undoubtedly a miracle in clinical history.
In later years, Dr. Xu Linyou has been sharing his experience and knowledge of cancer fighting with patients, giving countless patients confidence and courage. In those years, he came and went in the wind and rain, although he finally fell to work. But his deeds of fighting cancer for 10 years without recurrence still inspire many patients.
That year, when the reporter came to interview him, Dr. Xu Linyou looked serious and said without reservation: "In the past decades of clinical work, I have been both a doctor and a cancer friend. After so many years of fighting cancer, I only have three pieces of advice I want to share with you, hoping to alert the world. ”
The first piece of advice is to avoid excessive stress and fatigue at work
After being diagnosed with cancer, Xu Linyou has been reflecting on why he got cancer. After an in-depth review, he realized that the most likely factor may be overwork, which causes the body's immunity to decrease, thus increasing the risk of mutations in the body's cells. Before his illness, he often underwent dozens of major surgeries a month, and he didn't go to bed until 12 o'clock every night. Normally, he should have been able to fall asleep quickly, but in reality, he didn't sleep well all night and even suffered from insomnia for a long time.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if the body excessively depletes the essence and energy, it is easy to produce insomnia. It is generally due to overthinking or overwork, resulting in insufficient qi and blood, and deficiency of heart and spleen. If the qi and blood are insufficient, the mind cannot be nourished, and further the body functions will deteriorate, and if the body's righteous qi is insufficient, external evil will easily invade. At this time, the probability and risk of disease will be greatly increased.
In daily life, whether it is physical activity or mental activity, it will consume the body's energy and energy. Mental work does not consume less than physical work, and all thoughts consume the power of the mind. When the body is in a state of excessive wear and tear for a long time, the energy will gradually be lost and lost, and when the critical line is reached, the body will turn on the red light. Therefore, in life, we must learn to combine work and rest, dynamic and static, and avoid staying up late and overwork. Keeping you in a good mood helps to improve your body's immunity.
The second piece of advice is that mindset is very important
Xu Linyou often said that no matter how good the medicine is, it can't save the dead heart, and the treatment of the disease is the first to cure the heart, which is a basic principle in clinical treatment. However, in reality, many patients are frightened by their own condition and often give up hope of life before they are treated. In fact, adjusting the mentality, reasonably reducing pressure, and eliminating psychological anxiety, fear and other bad emotions often have a non-negligible role in the efficacy of the disease.
The third piece of advice is to change bad habits
Before his illness, Xu Linyou was also an ordinary person. He smokes and drinks alcohol, and often goes to supper after the night shift. Bad lifestyle habits also jeopardized his health to a certain extent. After being diagnosed with cancer, he immediately corrected these bad habits and comprehensively adjusted them from several aspects such as diet, exercise, and mentality. He often walks with his family and insists on exercising.
To sum up, the above three points are worth learning from. In addition, quitting smoking and drinking, adjusting your diet, and maintaining a positive attitude towards life can help reduce the risk of disease and enhance the body's immunity.
(Note: "Looking back on the 54-year-old oncologist's 10 years of fighting cancer without recurrence, his three pieces of advice before his death, alerting everyone" are pseudonyms, and some pictures are network pictures; Reprinting and plagiarism are prohibited in the article)