Rena’s story Breast Cancer- New Zealand

In early 2005, the pharmacist named Rena from New Zealand presented to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital, seeking for further treatment of breast cancer with lymph node metastasis. She was recommended by Doctors from Auckland to be treated surgically, but she refused to do surgical resection of the breast because she was already 46 years old but still single. 

When she learned Fuda Cancer Hospital from the Internet, she decided to seek for treatments in Guangzhou. Upon admission, she made several requirements. First of all, the hospital shall keep her disease absolutely confidential; secondly, she strongly refused to undergo surgery; thirdly, it shall conserve the integrity of her breast. Fuda medical team carried out percutaneous cryosurgery and axillary lymph node dissection, through which her breast had been kept intact. 

In May 2006, Professor Xu Kecheng was invited to give a lecture in New Zealand, accompanied by the fully recovered enthusiastic pharmacist. Whenever professor Xu concluded his speech, she took the initiative to go onstage to share her cancer and treatment experience in China without scruples. She loosened her coat, exposing her breast and said, "My wish is to tell breast cancer patients, there are other better ways to treat breast cancer except for surgical resection!”

Rena was on the public lecture 

Rena said, “Look! How beautiful my breasts are!” 

Rena

Breast cancer

Female, 46 years old, New Zealand. She was diagnosed with breast cancer, but she refused to undergo surgical resection, so she presented to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital for percutaneous cryosurgery and axillary lymph node dissection, through which her breast had been kept intact.

Treatment experience

Surgical resection is the preferred treatment for breast cancer. In recent years, with the development of ablation and imaging techniques, non-surgical tumor ablation has been increasingly used in breast cancer treatment, among which ultrasound or MR-guided percutaneous cryoablation for breast cancer has made great progress.

The rationalities of cryotherapy for breast cancer can be listed as follows: (a) Breast cancer is a systemic disease, patient’s long-term survival or "clinical cure" not only depends on the effect of local tumor removal, but also on cancer cells elimination, so the treatment effects of surgical resection and cryoablation for local tumors are same; (2) cryosurgery can "freeze" cancer cells to release tumor antigens that stimulate the body to produce anti-tumor immunity; (3) cryotherapy is punctured by fine needle, which can keep the breast intact.

Treatment Team

Fuda Breast Cancer Treatment Treatment

Li Chaolong   Professor
Niu Lizhi   M.D.
Hu Yong   Director
Li Hongmei    Doctor
Chen Zhixian  Doctor
Xing Yanli     Doctor