Four years ago, after six hours of serious surgery by the chief of thoracic surgery at a famous hospital in Guangzhou, a ping-pong ball-sized lung adenocarcinoma mass in my right lung was cut off, along with a portion of the pleura of the middle lobe's inferior oblique fissure. After surgery each chemotherapy began to serve targeted (also called interstitial therapy, heard this program, there were many doctors and patients were surprised,), six months later, the bad news appeared, head MRI **** vibration report: 6 **4mm strengthened nodules, the brain turned!
It's just a thunderbolt, and the mind stops! How could something so bad sneak into the brain! Chest and lungs have been close to normal, just forget the pain of surgery, a new life just started to turn the eye into a cold, dark hell. During the subsequent month of diagnosis, a question nagged at the back of my mind: was it the cancer cells that were nasty and active, or was it the improper treatment program? It was only confirmed three months later: the sin of the targeted drug Kemena!Recalling the medical history: diagnosed in mid-May and discharged in mid-June 2016, it took only seven months to jump up from stage IIIa to advanced single brain metastases; and only three months to develop multiple brain metastases (six) with headaches and dizziness! How much time do I have left on earth?
What happened in the year between post-op and June 2017? After surgery radiotherapy targeting, get into this situation, had to respectfully whisper to consult the Southern Hospital, Zhongshan Oncology and Provincial Hospital and so on after four or five experts, summed up their **** knowledge: 1 advanced, think about it you understand. 2 No doctor talked about the Gamma Knife. 3, several whole brain radiation treatments and then a period of cognitive impairment. There's a high probability of being an idiot, so how do you face your parents, wife and children for the rest of your life? Losing my patience, I knew that brain metastases were the experts' problem, the shortcomings of the oncology hospital! In my groggy brain, have been questioning, why every image neck chest abdomen completely normal? But the head is abnormal? This confirms that the thoracic surgery was successful, with no residuals. Ten days later, during the hot summer vacation of 2017, I had the bold analysis that my current condition must be a result of insufficient concentration of the drug into the brain, not resistance, and then I made a bold decision: stop taking Kemena and switch to Trocar! Kemena, which has an expiration date of only seven or eight months, is no longer trustworthy, no matter how much it lacks data on the effect of the drug on the brain! Kemena manufacturer designed self-funding period of six months (more than 13,000 per month) over, just started to be able to receive a free drug to eat, forced to ah! At that time, this decision was Hui Qiaolou oncologist considered stupid, impatiently said directly on the third generation of ositinib (trade name Teresa, API No. 9291), then the only listed three new drugs, a month of out-of-pocket expenses of more than 50,000, think of me as a small doctor, the income has been suspended, there is that mortgage car loans, the disease has not been given to the parents since the alimony, helpless ah guilt! Wallet so small, calm down! Experts recommended to everyone's program, when to consider the cost-effective it!Although there is a day of unpredictability, there will be timely rain. Guangzhou Gongyou Liu heard me in the purchase of complimentary medicines, immediately about me to the complimentary medicine, a month of genuine Trochel plugged into the hands of a small film bag of 30 grains engraved with the T of the white tablets, if in the market on the value of 1800 dollars ah! It does not have a grape weight, in my heart, but it is a snowball in love.
Yield, not in the lexicon of my life. Every day, I practiced as usual, Guo Lin qigong is still what I rely on. But I have been hit by the reality at the moment, which drug is not a panacea, targeting renewal, there is bound to be an end. Thinking of an old Chinese medicine practitioner who has experience in treating cancer, he said, "I can't eliminate the tumor, but if I change the patient's body environment, the tumor can't survive in the soil. The principle of supporting the right side of the body returns to our daily life, and the method of keeping the immunity from declining when chemotherapy is administered _______Acupuncture should be continued, and the improvement of the internal environment can't be accomplished in a day. Although Western medicine is powerful, in front of the tumor cells is still a clueless teenager.
When Trocaire served to four or five days, morning dizziness, daytime headaches began to ease the symptoms, months of slowness subsided, agile thinking back, Mrs. said to see a keen eye! One day a week later, something happened: the dancer, who had been in a daze for months, began to fight with his wife! It is amazing that a drug that ranks at the top of the generation of targeted drugs in terms of brain concentration, which is only a little more than ten percent, is so potent ! Two weeks later, the carcinoembryonic antigen dropped. One month later, the magnetic **** vibration reported remission! The country's first lung cancer targeted drug Keminah, honor countless but can not be proportional to the overall survival, alas, its merit only to fill the blank. Both to avoid the lack of blood tests to measure genetic mutations, but also to take into account the lungs and brain, and later to try Trocar pulse.
God of fortune, does not forget the explorer!
Targeted drug summary and recommendations: for the egfr mutation, Kemena, Erizar, afatinib when taken orally, the effect into the brain is extremely poor, brain metastasis is prohibited, and prevention of brain metastasis is used with caution. At the time of 2016, the marketed drugs inside, Trocar into the brain effect is the strongest.
Sunshine dancer words therapy:
1. Diagnosis of cancer, or metastasis progress also do not rush to make certain major decisions, a wrong seed, will bear bitter fruit.
2, chemotherapy and targeted alternating interstitial therapies, at that time is not mature, to ask beforehand, immature therapies can benefit? In other words, the choice of drugs and treatment options should be asked and compared.
3, heavy experts, light themselves, is to let others decide the fate
4, action, do not say that they do not understand the medical treatment, know the mistakes and then correct them, the road to recovery of their own master! (To be continued II)