Patient Stories of Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou: A Danish Patient Shares Her Reasons for Choosing Cancer Treatment In China

On March 22nd, 2009; Malaysia's State Government Industrial Development Assistant, Datuk Chi Daud took a tour of Fuda Cancer Hospital. In the seventh ward, by coincidence, Mr. Daud engaged in lively conversation with Ms. LSS patients from Denmark.

Ms. LSS discussed with Mr. Daud that she currently suffers from ovarian cancer, the transfer of concurrent rectal cancer, and retroperitoneal lymph node metastases. PET-CT showed multiple sites of tumor activity in the abdominal cavity. In her personal quest for the best treatments, Ms. LSS had already sought help from 5 doctors in Denmark, and two more in the United States. December 23, 2008, Ms. LSS made the decision to seek further treatment at Fuda Cancer Hospital in Guangzhou, China.

At Fuda, she received a combination approach to her treatment:

- cryosurgery - "removal of rectal cancer -" on the residual tumor

- Photodynamic therapy

- and 125 iodine seeds embedded into the lymph nodes.

January 28, 2009, Ms. LSS was discharged, so that she could go home to rest and recover.

On March 5, 2009, Ms. LSS returned to Fuda for follow-up. The good news: PET-CT showed no cancer activity in intra-abdominal.

Mr. Daud asked, "If a Malaysian has a friend with cancer, what is your proposal?"

Sharing her advice with Mr. Daud, Ms. LSS said, “If there are no treatments in Malaysia, by waiting with no hope, the end result is dying. Since there is an option, why don't we give it a try, at last there is a hope. That is the reason I came to Fuda. I am glad to come to Fuda. At least I know that I am getting better now. I have more power to survive”.