There is a doctor in our hospital who is only 49 years old and I saw him running every morning at the beginning of the year, but I didn't want to find out that he had liver cancer, and it was advanced liver cancer, after he had a bloating and pain in his right upper abdomen a while ago!

At first, he refused to agree to the treatment, and his family tried to persuade him not to be hospitalized, but just took strong painkillers.

However, the good times didn't last long, and soon there was the appearance of tarry black stool, which was caused by liver cancer combined with cirrhosis and hemorrhage caused by rupture of esophageal varices. Because of the excessive blood loss, he looked even more emaciated and weak.

Then it was his family who cried and insisted that he come to be hospitalized, and he could not resist the tearful pleas of his beloved before reporting to our department.

Slowly, the whole hospital knew ...... that people came to visit him every day.

Through the thick glass of the intensive care unit, I secretly watched from outside the ward every day, he was my former teacher and my forgotten friend. Usually I am the best at comforting patients, but this time I really didn't know how to comfort him.

Every day people come and go, every day forced smile, although it is a visit, but farewell! I know him, I guess at that time the most in his mind, is to find a place where no one lick their wounds alone, and then silently waiting for death to come.

During the hospitalization, the bleeding stopped, blood transfusion and liver protection treatment were given, and slowly the bleeding stopped. But he and we all knew that it was only temporary, and the engorged blood vessels were like a river that had crossed the guardrail, and would burst its banks again at some point.

With the first step of treatment, he seemed to feel that he couldn't just die like that, and with a one-and-a-half year old son, if he died that quickly, he probably wouldn't have an image of his father in the child's mind afterward.

The family then went to a hospital in the provincial capital for further tests to assess whether they could operate.

However, within a few days the bad news came that there was no chance of surgery!

Liver cancer is not sensitive to chemotherapy and the only way left is targeted therapy.

The targeted drug, rotavatinib, was taken for some time, and in the middle of it, he had recurrent tarry black stools. Because of the tight blood supply, several people in the hospital automatically went to the blood station to donate blood for him.

Gastroscopy to stop the bleeding again and again, only two or three short months, this doctor was still strong body, all of a sudden lost a big circle of weight.

"Why don't we change the liver, I heard that there are transplantation experts from Guangzhou sitting in the provincial medical university, so we can go and consult them", someone suggested.

The family hurriedly packed their things and set off again for the provincial capital.

But in a few days, the bad news came again, advanced liver cancer, invaded the surrounding blood vessels, surgery is quite difficult. If I don't do it, I can still live for a few more days, but if I do it, there is a big chance that I won't be able to get off the operating table!

I have not seen this doctor, who was also a mentor and friend, since then.

From despair, to renewed hope, to disappointment, to despair ...... Maybe, it was despair from the beginning, who knows?

Because they know so much, doctors will be much more fearful than the average person if they find out they have cancer.

Doctors can probably predict their remaining life expectancy, and the level of despair is evident when you see your body failing day by day and your life is at stake and there is nothing you can do about it.

Therefore, if doctors are not psychologically strong enough, their psychological defenses will quickly collapse once they themselves have cancer, especially advanced cancer.

Of course, there are many kinds of cancer, and there are also early, middle and late stages, and the mindset corresponding to different situations is bound to be different.

If it's early to mid-stage cancer and there's still hope for treatment, doctors will do everything they can and use all the resources they can to treat it. After all, no one wants to die.

A regular doctor in a large hospital, he can not only influence a department, its network can radiate to the entire medical community, the resources used is very scary.

So, live or die.

It may become Buddhist, even superstitious.

I have a former upper level doctor, 50 years old, female, lung cancer.

She had multiple lung nodules in her lungs that were discovered during a physical examination the year before, and after consulting a specialist, she was directly operated on to have two or three and a portion of her lung lobes removed, and was later examined and diagnosed with lung cancer.

When I first found out about the lung nodules, like any normal person, I was worried that it was cancer and was very upset and somewhat pessimistic.

But after all, he's a doctor, and very decisively went ahead with the surgery.

Her is still early, not too old, and itself is a Chinese medicine practitioner, after the operation began to look for experts to prescribe traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the body, the body is recovering very well.

He continued to come back to work after a three-month recuperation and was completely unrecognizable as a cancer patient.

But the mindset was changed when I came back.

The most talked about thing in the department is her lung cancer, sometimes we chat well, who forgot about her disease, and she suddenly brought it up by herself, the atmosphere was heavy all of a sudden ......

Often said that a fortune teller had shown her when she was a child that she could live into her eighties. She herself often stares at her lifeline.

If she had a nightmare, she thought to herself that it must be another harbinger of something, and eventually it would all come back to her condition.

People become a little superstitious.

The work is still very responsible, but the person is much more Buddhist as opposed to before.

In the past, when some patients did not cooperate with the treatment, she would be very patient and persuade her, telling her what would be beneficial to her condition.

Now then, our little doctor is clueless, she still visits, but after a couple of serious words, if the patient is still uncooperative, she calls the family directly, explains the situation, and asks for consequences.

"People have their own illnesses, it's hard for them if they don't see it, so they love to be cured anyway, and I'm sick myself."

Actually, that's what I think, love to cure or not, you don't want to see it yourself, what can I do?

When she came back to work, she would get up at 5:00 a.m. every morning to go to the park to exercise and rest around 8:00 p.m. She had a very regular schedule.

I make all my own meals in the morning, noon and night, eggs, grains and high-quality meats, and how to be healthy and fight cancer.

Never eat out, never eat out-of-season fruits and vegetables.

I have been drinking anti-cancer and anti-nodule herbs.

After a year and a half of insisting on drinking, she had a CT and the other nodules in her lungs turned significantly smaller.

Physical condition is very good at the moment, other psychological changes are unknown.

People fear death, and doctors are no different.

The only thing we can do is to treat and face the disease positively, and most importantly, the mind should not collapse, when the mind collapses the person collapses.

Cheer up!

The editorial asked what doctors do when they get cancer, and asked to talk about how doctors feel when they get cancer, rather than using the topic as a personal, unfounded rant. This is not good! At the very least you're treating your readers as if they were doodles, and you're also being irresponsible to yourself.

I am a doctor, 77 years old. Two years ago, I suffered from sigmoid colon cancer with liver metastasis, and had my colon and liver partially resected at China Medical College Cancer Hospital. Pathologic diagnosis: sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma, liver metastasis, advanced cancer stage IV. I was hospitalized for 13 days and returned to the outpatient clinic to see the patient. Chemotherapy was administered one month later, using XELOX two-week therapy. Because of the advanced stage, a total of 13 cycles of chemotherapy (usually 3 to 6) were administered. During this period chemotherapy was given in the morning and I still saw patients in the afternoon. No discomfort for two years. I am still working, and I do the grocery shopping and cooking. More than twenty pounds of stuff I lift the fifth floor in one go. From the onset of the disease to the present I have not regarded myself as a patient. The reason why I repeatedly show my real bottom is to let people know that it is not so terrible to have a tumor. At present, there are many treatment methods. Such as: surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted, immune, etc. 1 ~ 2 stage cancer surgical resection cure rate is very high. 3 ~ 4 cancer surgical resection plus chemotherapy five-year survival rate accounted for 30%. Moreover, thyroid cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, anterior fissure adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, hemophilia, skin cancer, melanoma and so on are within the scope of treatment. Cancer is now included in the list of chronic diseases. Please do not talk about cancer.

One of my colleagues in this hospital is suffering from breast cancer and the other is suffering from lung cancer, what should we do? The problem is very real, the condition is very cruel, although they are both studying medicine, but they all know that the chances of curing this kind of cancer are very low, even with all-round surgery, some times it is difficult to eradicate it with little luck. So what happened to our two doctors' cancer colleagues in the end? Today, I will tell you about the pathology of what happens when cancer occurs in doctors.

First: What about my OB/GYN coworker who is one year older than me and has breast cancer?

In fact, to put it bluntly, doctors are also human beings, and doctors are not iron men. Once they fall ill, they will take off their white coats and put on their gowns, just like the patients in the wards, because you have to believe that viruses do not recognize human beings. Therefore, my colleague from the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department was very unfortunate, and she found out that she was suffering from early-stage breast cancer when she underwent a free medical check-up in the hospital.

Frankly speaking, our hospital will be a yearly physical examination, the hospital more than 2,000 people, basically more or less, there are always some bad diseases, but did not say that cancer, at most it is some three high, or inflammation and infection of the small disease.

But this colleague was found in the annual routine medical check-up, so what to do, in fact, the doctor's heart at first with the ordinary people are the same, are panicked, only, after the panic, will tend to calm down, will be very immediately their own assessment of their own condition, because of its own is the Obstetrics and Gynecology, so more or less will also know their own seriousness of their own illness layer.

The main thing is, I have this colleague, not married, have not given birth to children, according to the reason, generally if the replacement of breast cancer is basically after marriage, or age in the 50-year-old middle-aged women in the crowd, but so young suffered, then how to do it? How can I breastfeed my own children in the future?

This series of question marks were deeply printed on my colleague, and most importantly, my colleague then played all her colleagues, and mobilized all her medical classmates in the university, to inquire about where the breast medicine technology is better, or where the breast specialists are good enough to assess the current and future development of the situation, or the management of the condition in the following period of time.

Because it is reading medicine so honestly, really save don't know how much time, basically ask the expert director or check the physical examination report as long as a phone call, or a WeChat message, it can be done. Greatly save her to see the doctor waiting, and even waiting for the report of the time.

Later, this colleague contacted a well-known breast cancer specialists in Shanghai, because her college classmates are also studying medicine, also work here, all the pathology reports, and images were sent to this classmate, make an appointment, intend to go over to the surgery, the

I later learned that this breast cancer was the earliest, although malignant, but after they contacted some specialists, after scientific and other my judgment and efforts, successfully removed this breast cancer!

Later, this colleague, three months at home to recuperate after coming to work, so far all is well, the progress is very good, mainly not all the resection, very good to retain a woman intact, and has been married and have children, and still use breastfeeding and other ways.

To summarize, after this incident, I sincerely sigh, in fact, learning medicine is really very good, can't say that help others or cure other people's diseases, but at least you can protect your own body or the health of your family.

Why do you say so, you only in from is this career, you will know so many excellent medical experts, some are your classmates, some are your colleagues There are also your mentor, and even the leadership, all the resources are all for you, because, within the peer group, people who study medicine know that the hard work of being a doctor, not to mention together with the same gown of the comrade in arms sick.

They are definitely doing everything they can to save and even cure you and other me illnesses, utilizing all their medical resources to help you, this is my experience.

In addition, later I understand why this colleague so young will suffer, mainly because of the little girl personality problems, more introverted, something are held in the heart, long time depression, it will be on the body to produce junction, in addition to the little girl is still a love of the United States, is always to lose weight for the purpose of often do not eat, although it is a doctor, but too much love for their own body shape leads to nutrition can not keep up, all kinds of immunity and so I reduced resulting in the body produces Diseases.

Second: A male colleague who was a smoker died of lung cancer.

It's really sad to talk about this colleague, and it was an instructor I used to rotate with, so it had a profound impact, because the death was sudden, from onset of illness to hospitalization, and left us in just even months.

That said, this colleague, in my rotating internship to their gastroenterology, my lead teacher is him, the impression that he is very love smoking, often get up in the morning a cigarette, work, if you can not help it, run to the hospital on duty inside the bathroom to pass the smoking habit.

What impresses me most is that in a morning checkup, due to the addiction to smoking, originally we are around a patient to explain and state the condition, etc., but a slip of effort, my teacher disappeared, and then after smoking, he came running in a hurry, his mouth grinned and said: it is the toilet, in fact, far away from being able to smell his smell of a cigarette.

We can only regulate this phenomenon regardless, because it is really understandable for a person who loves to smoke.

I have to say, smoking is indeed on the lungs and so I hurt a lot, '' in my second year into the official on the job, suddenly heard, my teacher because more than a cough Into the respiratory department, the back of a check has been lung cancer in the middle stage, in fact, the lungs have been completely infiltrated, the cancer cells in fact, has been deep into the human body each up organs and tissues.

Of course, because they are all colleagues in the hospital, our hospital also mobilized all the resources, and even outside also hired specialists, for his treatment, this teacher of mine to the time to see very open, the

Because he knew the awesome layer of this disease, so everything to see him to greet people, all responded that he was very optimistic has been smiling, not knowing that in fact the essence of the human being is still afraid of death, because when people really do not have extra time of life, you will feel that there are still a lot of unfinished business in the world, or a lot of remembrance, so ah, the birth of cancer death is afraid of each person.

I have to say, this teacher of mine still passed away 2 months after hospitalization, in fact, how to say, the disease is fair to everyone Only if you don't take care of yourself, you will understand the importance of life.

You also think about it, doctors who have cancer can be said to occupy more powerful medical resources than the average person, but the disease is a disease, there is no difference between the expensive and the valuable, the technology is no longer good, but the cancer type is not good, as usual, can not save your life.

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Recently, a colleague of mine's sister went to the hospital to see a doctor, and it was finally confirmed that it was the early stage of stomach cancer. However, her sister could not accept it at once, and she spoke as if she were giving an account of the aftermath of the incident, and her sister also stayed awake for a night after listening to it, and her heart was not in a good mood.

My colleague, 48 years old, her sister, 45 years old, her hometown is Jiangsu Xuzhou people, both married to Shanghai, now for the new Shanghai people, the economic conditions are good, her sister has only one daughter, in Shanghai, Huangpu District, the key high school school, the academic performance is very good, recently her sister appeared to have a stomachache, do not want to eat, have this symptom for nearly a month, she went to the six hospitals in Shanghai to see the doctor, diagnosed with gastric cancer, fortunately the early stage! Fortunately, it is early stage and has not spread, and the doctor said that as long as she actively cooperates with the treatment, she can be cured.

But whoever has the disease is under pressure, after all, it's cancer, and all of a sudden she can't handle it, and her sister explains to her sister to take care of her daughter. It should be said that not at all to that point, her sister patiently communicate with her, which should be happy, after all, in the early stage of stomach cancer was detected, active treatment, it will be fine.

It may be difficult for everyone to accept the fact that they have just been diagnosed with cancer. It is true that after hearing the word "cancer", the thinking of the person who has the disease is confused, and the first thought is why am I the one who has this disease? The first thought is why am I the one with this disease? However, the way each person thinks about cancer after the fact is formed is especially important.

First of all, it is confirmed that getting the disease cannot be changed, then we should face it bravely, treat it positively, and relax your mind to enjoy the time afterward, if you don't take the cancer to heart, the cancer will also live with you peacefully, there are many examples like this, some people can live with the cancer peacefully for forty to fifty years, some people treat it positively, the cancer mysteriously disappeared.

Therefore the mindset is most important, face cancer, accept it positively, not afraid of it, and treat it aggressively, I believe there will be a good outcome!

First of all, people seem to have an instinctive bias against the health of doctors, especially Chinese medicine practitioners, who are more demanding. It seems that doctors can't be sick, especially Chinese medicine doctors, must be white beard, immortal bone appearance only [tears] [teeth].

In fact, doctors are also ordinary people ah, also have seven feelings and six desires, likes and dislikes. In addition, the doctor this high-risk occupation is not health ah, they have to deal with a variety of patients all day long, all day are worried about busy, most are physically and mentally exhausted ah. Not to mention that in the face of old age, sickness and death, everyone is equal. Therefore, it is normal that the doctor will also get what disease others get.

Only, as a doctor, may, this can only be said to be possible one by one to see a lot of patients suffering, life and death, the heart of the death may be more open more light some, the ability to bear than ordinary people. In addition, because of the support of professional knowledge, in the choice of treatment programs may be more advantageous than ordinary people, at least, the condition to a certain time, some treatment programs may take the initiative to give up!

Because, as a doctor, it is actually very clear that the so-called modern medical treatment is mostly slow or even impotent in the face of the ever-changing diseases. Some of the treatment, including some resuscitation is to do their best or let the patient's family more or less some thoughts, some comfort, or even just to earn a few more dollars only!

People live is actually a continuous process towards death, all things in heaven and earth have to go through birth, old age, sickness and death, and become, live and die, which is the law of nature.

So, if I ever have to face a decision, I may face it openly and treat it aggressively according to the situation, but as far as I am concerned, I may choose to give up the devastating surgery and radiotherapy. First arrange the aftermath of the money owed to others first to account for clear, and then, according to the physical situation to do some of their favorite or do not have regrets about things, such as, travel, see the famous mountains, exotic landscapes; take the time to meet with friends and relatives, after all, this life to see a side of the side is less than one side of the side; and then, look at the book, a serious review of their own, after all, there is a reason for the incident ah. Of course, by the way, also forgive some people, let go of some things. Calmly waiting for the invitation of death, and finally, and old wife said sorry! And then to this let me sad and happy mixed world wave a sleeve, in a group of people or cry or laugh in the ashes fly [laugh].

My husband's cousin is a cardiologist and she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018! His husband chief of thoracic surgery, she timely surgery, began to take the medicine, both of her family are doctors, may know that this pancreatic cancer has a high lethality rate, she began to arrange some things, her mother lives on the sixth floor is too high up and down is not convenient, she will buy the first floor and decorate it, so that her mother to move down to live, her son is 12 years old, she is often on vacation with her husband and the family of three go on a trip! She felt that both of them were doctors and were too busy to spend much time with her son, and she couldn't wait to be with him every day since she got sick! Then her body slowly fought it off and her last month was spent in pain in her hospital bed! She died in June 2020, she was only 46 years old! She was so beautiful, but when we went to the funeral, she was so different that I couldn't tell it was her! I can't imagine what she went through in those two years! The screen kept scrolling with pictures of the three of them playing as a family when they passed away! I could tell she was quite happy! Should have made up for a little regret!

Doctors are also ordinary people who live and die, and some of them are also high-risk groups with high stress, and the risk of some diseases will also be higher than that of ordinary people.

So naturally doctors can get cancer, what happens when a doctor finds out he has cancer?

In fact, and ordinary people have the same, only early detection and early treatment, a good mentality, is the best policy, in the past 10 years, our hospital at least 10 doctors diagnosed with cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, testicular cancer and other cancers.

Today we share the different attitudes of two cancer doctors that determined their different fates:

Dr. Zhao, 34, died a year after breast cancer, and Dr. Feng, 47, is still working normally 10 years after lung cancer surgery.

I. Young female doctor with breast cancer, died less than a year ago

Breast cancer is the cancer with the highest incidence rate among female cancers. As long as breast cancer is detected and treated early, the 5-year relative survival rate is 89.9%, and the 5-year survival rate of in situ breast cancer is 98.8%. In short, although the incidence rate of breast cancer is high, as long as it is detected and treated early, most of it can be cured.

But why did a young doctor discover breast cancer and die less than a year later?

One year ago, Dr. Zhao inadvertently found that she had a breast lump, complicated by local skin abnormalities and fluid overflow. She is a doctor herself, so she did not pay attention to it, and was reluctant to go for further investigation, and took some anti-inflammatory drugs by herself. However, the symptoms were not relieved later on, and the localized skin was red, swollen, thickened, and hardened, with an orange-peel-like appearance, which gradually turned into a purplish red color that looked like bruises. She had an ultrasound done, and was basically diagnosed with breast cancer; however, multiple lymphatic metastases were found at the same time, and she had already missed the chance of surgery, and there was no significance of radiotherapy. Then, after a period of symptomatic infusion, the person was gone!

So even for doctors, even for young people, even for most cancers that can be cured, once they are not detected and treated early, they will eventually deteriorate and take the life of a 34-year-old young doctor!

Second, Dr. Feng, 47, still goes to work normally 10 years after lung cancer surgery

Ten years ago, Dr. Feng, 47 years old, found a space in his lungs during a check-up, and was finally diagnosed with lung cancer, which is the first cancer with the highest morbidity and mortality rate among men. Dr. Feng was hospitalized and operated at the first time, then after a long period of regular radiotherapy and chemotherapy, after 1 year of correction and treatment, he returned to work again, and now he still attends outpatient clinics, still checks the rooms, and still does gastroscopy.

Lung cancer was discovered at that time, and based on the assessment at that time, it was felt that Dr. Feng's prognosis was not good. Dr. Feng took a break for 1 year, and after regular treatment, Dr. Feng continued to exercise, eat a healthy diet, and continue his hard work; he also published a medical book during this time.

Therefore, even cancer, which has the highest morbidity and mortality rate, can be eradicated as long as it is detected and treated early and a good mindset is maintained.

In short, doctors are also ordinary people, doctors are also parents, children, husband and wife, wearing a white coat to see patients is just the occupation of doctors. Taking off the white coat, walking on the street is exactly the same as everyone else. Doctors will also be sick, doctors may also suffer from cancer, treatment of cancer, the only prevention is the best strategy, treatment of cancer only early detection and early treatment can be cured.

What happens when a doctor finds out he has cancer?

This question is actually puzzling to many people. I remember when I was a child, I especially worshiped doctors, and at that time, I felt that doctors were omnipotent in treating the sick and saving people, and I felt that doctors were the existence that would not get sick.

Then slowly grew up, and then also embarked on the path of medicine, only to find out how difficult the profession of doctors is, with great responsibility, long working hours, no holidays, and no double holidays. Just like this epidemic, we received the order, no second thoughts, give up the Spring Festival vacation immediately back to work. Long-term pressure, rest is not normal, in fact, our medical staff's physical condition than the average person may not be able to compare.

Getting to the point, what happens if a doctor gets cancer?

In fact, everyone is the same, cancer who are afraid, are human not God, fear is the same. Then after the fear, will calmly think about how to treat the next. After all, we study the medical knowledge of the disease than the general public is much stronger, for the consequences of the disease is also more aware of, and therefore will be the first time to consider treatment options.

Secondly, since it is within the healthcare system, then physician resources come in handy at this time to connect to good hospitals and doctors faster and get treatment as soon as possible.

If it is in the late stage, then some doctors will be a little stronger in the heart, after all, in the hospital, every day may encounter life and death, see more will be indifferent.

Finally, it is important to say that medical checkups are important to protect yourself from being too indulgent, overexerting yourself, and practicing good habits before horrible diseases come your way.

When a doctor finds out that he has cancer, he should know very well in his heart whether he can treat it or not, or whether he can cure it or not, and he will certainly do his best if he can, and there is not much he can do if he can't.

Life is only once for everyone, and if you find out that you have cancer, you must be very anxious, even doctors are no exception. Many years ago, we have a barefoot doctor here, medical practice is also very high, every day there are a lot of people looking for him to see a doctor, one year he was sick, to the county hospital to check the end of the home, and since then no longer see a doctor, but also seldom to see him go out to play, not a few months on the death of a lot of people do not understand, there is a disease, why not go to the hospital? Later, his son said, found out that is the late stage of lung cancer, he insisted not hospitalized, for fear of falling into debt to his children.

This is a true story, now I realize that this is a wise choice, advanced cancer is very difficult to cure, spent money, suffered, and finally ended up in a person's wealth. Concerned about Chinese medicine and miscellaneous diseases, and share with you the methods of health care.