Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

Cancer patients frequently develop intractable diarrhea, and the causes that trigger diarrhea in cancer patients are various. There is diarrhea caused by tumor progression, as well as diarrhea caused by the patient's own constitution, and even some diarrhea that is a side effect of treatment—for…

Most cancer patients inevitably die of their cancer in the end. Modern people have less and less experience in coping with death, so that many families are at a loss as the patient approaches death, and a few families cannot accept the reality that the…

Recently, stories have been circulating among cancer patients about an elderly American, Joe Tippens, who defeated cancer by taking "dog medicine"—the veterinary dewormer fenbendazole (English name: Fenbendazole). Joe Tippens was an equity partner at a large private equity firm. In 2016 he was diagnosed with…

All along, there have always been patients with advanced or end-stage cancer and their families who place great hopes in me, hoping I can work a miracle for them. Working miracles for patients is also my wish. I believe everyone who studies medicine sincerely hopes…

Last September, I went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang, to pay my respects at the hometown of a patient and close friend who had passed away. I stayed one night in his home. In the empty house he had left behind, I was all alone; my old…

There is an old Chinese saying: "Long at the sickbed, no filial son; long in poverty, no worthy wife." Lately, caring for my father, I have come to feel some truth in it. My father has a mild tendency toward late-life depression, stubborn constipation, and…

On June 23, 2019, Professor Wang Lei, former vice president of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and a renowned colorectal-cancer specialist, died of pancreatic cancer after unsuccessful treatment, at the age of 50. Like him, other physicians who were both famous anti-cancer…

Because I treat a relatively large number of neuroblastoma children, I have come into contact with many neuroblastoma families and thus have some understanding of the epidemiology of this disease. Many of the neuroblastoma patients I treat come from my hometown, Huanggang, Hubei. I have…

Because I have recently been writing a book, in order to obtain more detailed material I have been reading many more medical monographs on cancer, among them The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Chinese translation: Zhong Bing zhi Wang—Aizheng…

Cancer is so frightening to have, and so is watching and treating it. —Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Whether it is the doctor treating cancer, the patient who has cancer, or the patient's family members—once they dwell on cancer,…