The Rank Prize Winner Lu Mingying’s Story of Seeking Treatment at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital

On March 16, a special patient attended at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital Press Conference. It’s Chinese British Scientist Dr. Lu Mingying, the Rank Prize winner.

Last month, she accepted nanoknife therapy at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital, and she was able to walk in the next day.

Dr. Niu Lizhi and Ms. Lu

In the end of 1980s, digital camera was very expensive, which cost several thousand dollars on the international market. Because the imaging sensor used in digital camera was costly at that time. In 1987 and 1989, Wang Guoyu and his wife Lu Mingying joined in experimental group of Edinburgh University in UK. With two professors of Edinburgh University tried to find a new imaging senor. After research, they succeeded in applying common CMOS in imaging sensor. It’s obvious that the innovation brought out so much benefit. The cost of imaging sensor fell by a third, which could put into mass production. Therefore, taking photo with mobile phone also turned to be easy. The cost of camera chip in mobile phone reduced to four dollars dramatically. Phone equipped with camera was not longer luxury but ordinary consumer item. Therefore, they were awarded top prize in the field of science—the Rank Prize. The technique was firstly applied in Nokia mobile phone. “It produces four million camera chips of mobile phones everyday in the world, which is connected with our technique.” Lu Mingying said.

The Rank Prize is one of the top awards in the field of British science, which is regarded as the Nobel Prize in the field of photoelectron and nutrition. The award goes to those who make innovation and contribution to human society in photoelectron and nutrition in the world. Just a few Chinese won this prize, like the Father of Hybrid Rice Yuan Longping and the Father of Optical Fibre Gao Kun.

Lu Mingying felt uncomfortable when she gave lecture at Kunming not long ago, and she was diagnosed as cholangiocarcinoma in local hospital. Her life encountered disaster.

At first, she chose to back Britain for treatment. She once asked help form Prof. Leen of Imperial College Medical School, a world-renowned oncologist specialized at nanoknife ablation therapy.

She could enjoy free treatment in Britain, but she had to wait. And there was no comprehensive therapy at local hospital. Her condition turned worse quickly, so she decided to go to China for treatment.

After transferring to several hospitals, she went to a cancer hospital which just offered chemotherapy and radiation. She didn’t accept chemotherapy. And she went to hospital at Beijing for consultation. They suggested to have chemotherapy firstly, then to have nanoknife therapy. She still didn’t want to have chemotherapy.

She decided to have the new technique -- nanoknife therapy. “I followed the word ‘nanoknife’ and searched in the internet. Finally, I found Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital. I learnt that FUDA have done more than 70 case of nanoknife surgery by several phone consultations. I thought their technique was mature and determined to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital to have nanoknife ablation therapy.”

President Dr. Niu Lizhi said, “She suffered from abdominal pain and couldn’t walk when she first came to FUDA.”

She first had photodynamic therapy. On February 2, Lu Mingying had nanoknife therapy at Fuda Cancer Hospital. After four day, on February 6, she became better obviously. She could walk and get up to have a photo with President Niu Lizhi in the ward.

Then, she had comprehensive intervention therapy.

A few days ago, in the ward, Lu Mingying’s husband Wang Guoyu told the author that what they appreciated was the advanced technique for cancer treatment around the world, so they chose FUDA. And he disclosed that they were developing more advanced technique of multi-media digital broadcast which would be used in Beijing Road Walking Street.

Photodynamic Therapy Shows Magic in Treating Esophageal Cancer Patient

In February 23, 2016, Mr. Wu who is from Inner Mongolia came to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital for re-examination in company of his son. Learning that the result of re-examination was normal, he hold the hands of his attending doctor Xing Yanli with eyes filling with tears and said, “Doctor Xing, thank you very much. And I also want to thank Doctor Li Hongmei. Thank Fuda Cancer Hospital. There are not only excellent medical skills but also satisfactory service. ”

Mr.Wu(Right)and Doctor Xing’s photo

Mr.Wu is 64 years old, who had been manager of a factory for more than 20 years. He wanted to enjoy the pleasures after retirement. Unexpectedly, he was diagnosed as esophageal cancer with lymph metastasis last year. Mr. Wu’s son was eager to save him and hoped him recover soon. They took Mr. Wu to Beijing for seeking treatment, but the answers all were “surgical removal”. Mr. Wu was afraid of the risk of surgery and hoped to find a mini-invasive treatment plan. His two sons were searching around effective treatments. And they learned that Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital had special cancer treatment mode which met the aspiration of Mr. Wu. Therefore, they decided to have a try at Guangzhou. 

On August 21, 2015, Mr. Wu came to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital in company of his son. Chief president Xu Kecheng visited him, which made him surprised. Mr. Wu said, “President Xu was so approachable. He joked with me that he was 75 years old which was 11 years older than me, and he also was a cancer patient. I should be confident because they can help. After hearing these words, I felt a load off my mind.”

Learning that Mr.Wu hoped to be treated with mini-invasive treatment, President Xu held a consultation with experts right away. And they decided to adopt photodynamic therapy in treating Mr. Wu.

In fact, there are not a few patients like Mr. Wu who afraid of surgery in clinic. Besides traditional surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital has “3C+P” personalized therapy which including photodynamic therapy. Cancer photodynamic therapy kills cancer cells efficiently by photosensitizer and laser. And it’s mini-invasive treatment.

At the end of August and October, 2015, Mr. Wu accepted esophageal cancer photodynamic therapy twice. On 7 September, he accepted iodine 125 implantation in cardiac lymph nodes. And the surgery was successful. After surgery, Mr. Wu recovered well. Attending Doctor Xing Yanli said, “After having treatments several times, Mr. Wu was better and he just needed to do regular visits.” 

On February 23 of this year, Mr. Wu came back FUDA for re-examination. And all condition was normal. His son said sincerely, “Thank Fuda Cancer Hospital. And I hope Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital can set a branch at Inner Mangolia for the benefit of local patients.” On February 25, Mr. Wu and his son set foot on the way home.

Mr. Wu (R) and his son gave Fuda Cancer Hospital a thumbs-up.

Pancreatic Cancer Patient’s Life Being Rescued by Nanoknife Therapy at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital

On 29th February 2016, sunshine drove away the gloomy and the dark. After having nanoknife (irreversible electroporation) therapy, Mr. Qiu was going to leave hospital with heat full of hope. Looking back on the eight months of fighting against carcinoma of pancreatic head, he was filled with emotion. When Xu Kecheng, chief president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital visited him, Mr. Qiu said sincerely: Thank you for making me not afraid of cancer anymore. I am confident to get back to health, because I receive correct treatment here.
 

Chief president Xu Kecheng (left) was visiting Mr. Qiu.


Mr. Qiu was thanking Doctor Shi Hongxia (middle).
 

Confront with carcinoma of pancreatic head
 

Mr. Qiu comes from Hong Kong. He is a 65-year old man with a pair gleaming eyes. He sat in front of me with a smile on his face. No one will think he is a cancer patient who has held on to fight against carcinoma of pancreatic head for 2800 days and nights.

Dr. Niu Lizhi, president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital said that carcinoma of pancreatic head is malignant tumor. Eight months ago, Mr. Qiu was overwhelmed with sadness by the diagnosis.

Mr. Qiu once worked for a grand theatre. He has a filial daughter. He should have enjoyed the happiness of family. Unfortunately, on July 2015, Mr. Qiu found himself becoming thin and losing 10 kilograms without cause while suffering from abdominal pain. Mr. Qiu didn’t pay attention on it. After two months, he had diarrhea three to five times a day on average. On 11th November, he went to local hospital for examination without company of family.

After examination, Mr. Qiu was diagnosed as carcinoma of pancreatic head. PET-CT shown that was a 6.5 cm * 4.4 cm lump. Mr. Qiu said, he was so sad and shocked for knowing that carcinoma of pancreatic head is hard to treat, which made him felt death was approaching him.

Doctor of Hong Kong thought it took big risks having whipple surgery (pancreas duodenectomy) and advised Mr. Qiu to take biliary stent and bypass surgery. But Mr. Qiu refused. After taking chemotherapy twice, abdomen MRI scan showed the lump on pancreatic head reduced to 4.6 cm *3.9 cm. However, after having chemotherapy, he developed red rushes, itching, myelosuppression and hair loss etc. Chemotherapy was so painful that Mr. Qiu was urgent to find a suitable treatment plan.

I found proper treatment here luckily.

“Fortunately, when I failed in seeking treatment, my daughter took part in the lecture delivered by Mufeng, vice president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital. She learnt about the most advanced ablation technique nanoknife therapy (irreversible electroporation) which can ablate targeted tumors and apply to pancreatic cancer. My intuition told me that Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital will be my savior.”

On 17th February, Mr. Qiu was admitted to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital with being diagnosed as cT4N1M0 stage Ⅲ of carcinoma of pancreatic head. Soon, president Niu made a rigorous treatment plan for Mr. Qiu. It’s irreversible electroporation (nanoknife therapy) for carcinoma of pancreatic head treatment. On 23rd February, the operation was conducted smoothly and patient’s blood loss was just 2ml.

For more understanding of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and the successful completion of nanoknife surgery, Mr. Qiu began to see hope. Remind of the period of having chemotherapy, I was often weak and tired at that time. But after nanoknife surgery, my psychological condition became better, and I became happier gradually. Mr. Qiu’s daughter said: “After nanoknife surgery, my father was better obviously. His psychological condition was improved. The confidence and encouragement of fighting against cancer were boosted.”

Mr. Qiu said, it’s unfortunate to have carcinoma of pancreatic head, but I was lucky to have advanced nanoknife therapy with good therapeutic effects in the fight against cancer. And he was said emotionally: “I sincerely appreciate Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital. Thanks Dr. Niu Lizhi for performing operation for me. I also want to thank Doctor Shi Hongxia and nurses. The medical condition and environment are satisfactory and comfortable.”

In the afternoon of 29th February, chief president Xu Kecheng, Doctor Shi Hongxia and other medical workers visited Mr. Chou for he was going to leave. He expressed his gratitude again: I will come to have re-examination. It’s you who teach me to never give up at any time.
 

Photo of Mr. Qiu (middle), President Niu Lizhi (No.3 from right) and treatment team

Rus’s story Kidney cancer with bone metastasis-Philippines

One year ago, at a seminar in Manila, Philippines, a fifty-year-old lady suddenly came to Prof. Xu Kecheng, her face was familiar, but Prof. Xu could not recall which kind of cancer she had(Figure 9). She said, “Professor Xu, you are my great benefactor, do you think that I am still sick?” I recognized that she was a patient with metastatic renal carcinoma, her name was Rus. Five years ago she had surgery. Three years ago, the patient came to our hospital with bone metastasis. For this kind of progressive renal cancer, chemotherapy and radiotherapy do not work at all. There are ten reports showing that patients with a 5-year survival rate vary from 0-13%. Prof. Xu treated her with Combined Immunotherapy for Cancer (CIC), which she unexpectedly greatly benefited from. Prof. Xu read her latest CT films done in the Philippines and no lesions could be seen. She gave Prof. Xu  two beer bottles with flowers that she herself had painted on as gifts. According to her family's custom, these flowers on beer bottle represent their cordial respects and gratitude. She was afraid Prof. Xu would not accept them, saying that she was too poor to send him valuables, she also did not dare send him valuables as she knew there is a rule in our hospital that all staffs are not allowed to accept gifts from patients. These were not valuables, but a token of her regards, so Prof. Xu accepted. Although Prof. Xu cannot fully understand the true meaning of the painting, he brought back these two beer bottles and put them on the bookcase in his office where he can see them everyday.

On November 19, 2011, the vice president Mr. Binay made an appointment with Prof. Xu in Manila. Mrs. Rus heard that Mr. Binay wanted to meet Prof. Xu, she came to the hotel that he stayed in early that morning, following Prof. Xu to go to the Vice Presidential Palace. Mr. Binay was very excited after listening to Prof. Xu’s presentation and had his photo taken with Mrs. Rus and her sister.

Several years have passed, Rus is still alive and healthy. Every time Professor Xu goes to the Philippines, she always accompanies him, and shares her anti-cancer experience with those cancer patients who still live in great misery.

 

Rus is sharing her personal anti-cancer experience with others

Vice President of the Philippines Binay received Ms. Rus(Left) and her younger sister

Rus is sharing her cancer rehabilitation experience as a volunteer of Fuda

Rus

Kidney cancer with bone metastases

Female, 58 years old, kidney cancer, nephrectomy with recurrent bone metastases.  After she received combined immunotherapy, the metastatic lesion disappeared. She has cancer-free survived for 6 years.

Treatment Experience

Those patients with metastatic kidney cancer who have undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy have poor prognosis and their median survival period is less than one year. However, this patient has disease-free survived for 6 years, for which is closely related to immunotherapy.

Cancer cell is heterogeneous, which means cancer gene expression varies and it is very unstable during the differentiation. In other words, cancer cells change day by day. Immunotherapy shall be powerful and adaptable to fight cancer. The immunological measures used shall vary with cancer cells. 

Based on the above understanding, Fuda Cancer Hospital combine a variety of immunological measures, which is so-called combined immunotherapy (CIC), including CIK, DC, T cell transfusion therapy, cytokines injection and non-specific immunostimulating therapy. This would be like fighting a battle, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and even the police (immune cells and cytokines), intelligence agent (DC cells) are indispensable. For immune cells, it shall not only increase their number, but also take measures (non-specific therapy) to stimulate their enthusiasm, so that they dare to make a frontal attack on cancer cells. Of course, in some patients, before they receive one or more immunological measures, some special pre-tests shall be carried out to understand individual differences, on which personalized treatment will be made.

According to Rus’s specific condition, she was recommended to undergo CIC long-term non-specific immune therapy, focusing on mobilizing the initiative of innate anti-cancer ability to inhibit or even eliminate cancer cells (apoptosis), so she manage to obtain long-term survival. It is a great success, which can be called a miracle!

Treatment Team

Xu Kecheng   Professor

Chen Jibing    M.D.

Niu Lizhi    M.D.

Mu Feng    M.D.

Media Reports

Xu Kecheng: Follow Me to Fight Against Cancer，Beijing, People's Medical Publishing House

Videos

Combined Immunotherapy for Cancer

Ms. Xu's Story

On December 27, 2015, Madam Xu, a pancreatic cancer patient from Shanghai was discharged as her condition has improved after received meticulous treatment at FUDA. The daughter of Madam Xu said with great relief, “Seeing that my mom has improved both mentally and physically, I would like to express my deep appreciation to Dr. Niu Lizhi and Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital.”

President Xu visiting Madam Xu

In mid June, 2015, Madam Xu had intermittent dull pain in upper abdomen and aversion to greasy food. On June 30, she had yellowing in whole body skin and in sclera and was hospitalized in a local hospital. The impressions of CT scan were as follows: a space-occupying lesion about 3cmx2cm in size is detected in the neck of pancreas and is found to have invaded lower segment of common bile duct; intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts dilation is detected; an abnormal  enhancing lesion is found in outer right lobe of liver. The attending doctor suggested operation but Madam Xu declined and just took traditional Chinese medicine for anti-cancer treatment. 

In October, Madam Xu had aggravated symptoms, including intermittent abdominal pain, vomiting after food intake, difficult defecation and etc. To seek further treatment, Madam Xu was hospitalized at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital in the company of her family members on November 6.

A photo of Dr. Niu Lizhi and Madam Xu

After she was hospitalized into FUDA, Dr. Niu arranged whole-body examinations for her in no time. After learned that Madam Xu has nutrition risk as she had 15kg of body weight loss since her illness, the attending doctor prescribed nutrition support for her.

To further control tumor progression, the medical team decided to perform NanoKnife therapy for her. On November 10, the NanoKnife therapy medical team headed by Dr. Niu Lizhi performed irreversible electroporation (NanoKnife therapy) under the guidance of B ultrasound for Madam Xu as scheduled, two electron-probes were punctured into the tumor in the neck of pancreas for local ablation. The procedure went smoothly. The volume of bleeding was only 50ml during the procedure.

After the procedure, Madam Xu has had a good recovery. She has resumed her good spirit and appetite to some extent and she has also gained some weight. On December 10, the doctor attending to madam Xu arranged immuntherapy for her in order to boost her own anti-cancer immunity. Seeing that her mother’s condition had significant improvement, Madam Xu’s daughter was greatly relieved. She told the writer that they have came all the way from Shanghai to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital for NanoKnife therapy. “I learned on the Internet that Fuda Cancer Hospital has successfully carried out the first case of Nanoknife therapy for pancreatic cancer in mainland China”. That’s why I decided to bring my mother to FUDA and have a try. The treatment has delivered good curative effects exactly as we have expected.”

According to statistics, the NanoKnife therapy medial team led by Dr. Niu Lizhi has saved over 60 pancreatic cancer patients from the verge of death. We believe that more and more cancer patients will receive benefit from the latest technology in the future.

TIPS: Seven advantages of NanoKnife therapy

Dr. Niu Lizhi indicated that NanoKnife therapy is a safe and highly effective minimally-invasive technology for tumor treatment. Compared with other tumor treatment method, it has the following advantages:

1. Short ablation duration

For solid tumors about 3 cm in diameter, it requires just 90x100milisecond ultrashort pulses. One group of treatment takes less than one minute. Even if there are 3 to 4 overlapped ablation areas, the whole ablation duration will be less than 5 minutes.

2. Preserving important tissues such as vessels and nerves in ablated areas

Nanoknife therapy can protect important tissue structures in ablated areas. Important liver structures, such as hepatic artery, hepatic vein, portal vein and intrahepatic bile ducts can be well protected after being treated with Nanoknife therapy.

3. No heat island effect

Nanoknife System for tumor ablation uses electrical pulses to breakdown cell membrane. The procedure will neither generate energy nor be influenced by external temperature.
4. Thorough ablation with clear demarcation
IRE can perform thorough ablation to tumor regardless of its site, size and shape even if it’s tumors close to vessels or tumor with irregular shape or big size. Moreover, there is a demarcation between ablated area and non-ablated area; therefore, more precise judgment and evaluation can be made for the follow-up, effectiveness and treatment performance of Nanoknife Therapy. Moreover, NanoKnife therapy can exempt the possibility of tumor recurrence after treatment.

5. Ablated area will remain functional

Different from conventional ablation modes, Nanoknife therapy can promote cell death through immunity stimulation. Human body will identify cell apoptosis as normal cell death and then clean apoptotic tissue through cytophagy so as to promote the regeneration and repair of normal tissue.

6. Real time monitoring during treatment

Nanoknife Therapy can be navigated and monitored by ultrasound, CT or MRI. There is only few millimeters of difference in size between ablated areas monitored by ultrasound or CT and that measured in pathological analysis. The imaging can also clearly display unablated residual cancer cells, to which doctors can perform ablation again. Moreover, real time monitoring allows doctors to observe the changes in the surrounding tissues of ablated area and predict the possibility of complications so as to guarantee patient’s safety and quick postoperative recovery.

7. Nanoknife Therapy can be applied to more complicated conditions

As NanoKnife therapy inflicts no injury to such important tissues. It could deliver safe and effective treatment for the tumor which is close to big vessels, bile duct, pancreatic duct and hepatic portal vein, prostate cancer and cancer close to spine.

Mota and Mata's story

In 2009, a pair of sisters from America came to Fuda Cancer Hospital. They were diagnosed with breast cancer almost at the same time and both requested to receive breast-conserving treatment. They came to FUDA and received percutaneous cryoablation, which has achieved good treatment results. Later they came to our hospital for checkups. In 2013, doctors from FUDA paid them a follow-up visit in New York, America. They have been leading a happy life.

 President Xu Kecheng  and American breast cancer sisters

Treatment experience

Researches on follow-up visits to patients by several cancer centers showed that there is no obvious difference in total survival rate between patients received radical mastectomy, breast tumor resection and patients received breast tumor resection together with radiotherapy. Given this, doctors tend to adopt conservative methods in treating breast cancer. Cryoablation is most suitable to the following cases: patients with small and isolated invasive breast cancer; patient whose tumor is smaller than 15 mm with low density and clear dividing line on a mammogram and a visible posterior wall at ultrasonography; patients with small breast tumor which is unsuitable to or intolerant of surgery or chemotherapy.

As initial treatment to small breast cancer, cryoablation has advantages as follows: 
1. The curative effect of cryoablation can be compared with that of tumor resection;
2. Patient is tolerant of cryoablation, which inflicts no pain and requires no anesthesia (or just local anesthesia ); 
3. The procedure is simple, which can be compared to CT-guided biospsy; 
4. It leaves no scar and preserves the integrity of breast appearance. It doesn’t hurt skin even if tumor is close to it;
5. It is evidenced that cryoablation can induce anti-tumor immune reaction, which is evidently beneficial to the prevention of tumor recurrence. 

Cryoablation is becoming an important way for breast cancer treatment. With regard to early stage small breast tumor, percutaneous cryoablation can achieve similar curative effect as tumor resection. As a minimally invasive treatment, cryoablation does not affect breast appearance, which is superior to the latter.

The reason why the pair of sisters came all the way to Fuda Cancer Hospital was that they wanted to receive cryoablation. They also achieved ideal curative effectat FUDA.

Mo Xiaofeng's Story

Mo Xiaofeng is a 16-year-old girl from Shangkeng Village, Huaiji County, Guangdong Province. After one cycle of chemotherapy, Xiaofeng seemed to be okay except abdominal distension after meal and edema in ankles. Xiaofeng, a top student at school, often asked his father, “when can I go back to school?”

Her parents were very worried about Xiaofeng as there was a “bomb” that might explode at any time in her body. Her parents had been consoling her that she would recover and go back to school soon instead of telling her the diagnosis and the severity of the disease. They had been under huge mental pressure but had to pretend nothing happened.

Xiaofeng’s story can be traced back to March 2009 when she stumbled on a mass in middle to upper abdomen. According to biopsy, she was diagnosed with solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN), a rare exocrine tumor of pancreas. It is known to all that pancreatic cancer is called the King of Cancer, let alone such a rare pancreatic tumor. The couple was hit by the blow of fate. Xiaofeng underwent operation.

 

In May 2014, Xiaofeng had such symptoms as abdominal distension, upper abdominal pain, edema in ankle and fever. These symptoms aggravated day by day. Xiaofeng’s father brought her to Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center for examination, which showed metastases were found as spleen enlarged significantly and multiple masses were found in liver.

Xiaofeng’s father brought her to Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital as the last resort in June 2014. Xiaofeng’s symptoms relieved significantly after she underwent interventional embolization, cryosurgery and chemoablation therapy.

 

While medical workers were making further treatment plan, Xiaofeng was discharged.

 

Doctor Huang Zhifeng, Xiaofeng’s chief doctor told Xiaofeng’s story to President Xu. He remembered that the 16-year-old girl had been addressing him “Grandpa Xu” and told him to strike a balance between work and life when he was making rounds every day. Xu Kecheng was wondered why she discharged against medical advice when it was the best time for treatment.

 

Xu Kecheng and Huang Zhifeng drove over 3 hours to see Xiaofeng in October 18. Xiaofeng’s home was located in a small hill of Shikeng Village. Xioafeng was teaching her two little brothers at home. Her mother rushed home from the fields to welcome him. It was until then did Xu Kecheng knew why Xiaofeng discharged against doctor’s medical advice.

Xiaofeng’s parents are diligent and honest farmers. They only have meager income from the crops and from odd jobs. There are elderly parents, five children in her family. Xiaofeng is the third children; her youngest brother was just enrolled into primary school and the eldest sister was in her third year in high school. Though Xiaofeng’s parents are farmers, they knew very well the importance of education. Hence, they have sent their children to school though they are not well-off. The five children have been very sensible, especially Xiaofeng. She studied very hard and kept among the ten top students in her grade every year.

Prof. Xu Kecheng(R1), Doctor Huang Zhifeng visited Mo Xiaofeng at her home(L3). Mo Xiaofeng’s father (L1) 

However, Mo Xiaofeng’s education was finished in 2009 when she was diagnosed with cancer. As her classmates were preparing for senior high school entrance examination, Xiaofeng had to stay in the hospital bed.

The parents were caught unprepared by Xiaofeng’s disease. They were under huge mental pressure as they were worried about her disease but had to pretend nothing happened. The financial burden had also become worse. The family’s already meager income could barely support their tuition fee and daily expenses, let alone Xiaofeng’s medical expenses. What should they do?

The couple had no way out but to reduce their daily expense to the minimum and borrow money from relatives in order to raise money for Xiaofeng’s operation. However, things did not work out. The things that they worried about the most finally happened five years later. Even if Fuda has reduced unnecessary treatments and examinations, the medical expenses still stood at 80,000RMB. The family had no way out but to bring Xiaofeng back home as they did not have enough money for her treatment. The family was reduced to despair again. As Xiaofeng knew nothing about her disease, she often asked her father when she could go back to school. His father just told her there was something wrong in her body but she would recover soon as he could not bear to tell her that she might never be able to go back to school again.

As her condition was deteriorating and her frequent visit to hospital, Xiaofeng finally learned her condition and she stopped asking father when she could go back to school.

Xu Kecheng was saddened to learn the news. It suddenly dawned on him that Xu Kecheng Health Care Studio that was established by Civilization Office of Tianhe District Committee in June 2014 has helped two impoverished cancer patients, namely Han Bingbing and Luo Caizhi. He wanted to make Mo Xiaofeng the third beneficiary of the studio. Though the tumor was located in pancreas, it was different from common pancreatic cancer as it has special features. If given appropriate treatment, Xiaofeng can coexist with tumor for a long time and gain a better quality of life.

 

Under such circumstances, Xu Kecheng called for the society to raise money for Mo Xiaofeng. Though a total of 30,000RMB was raised, it was still fall far short of the expected medical expenses that stood at 180,000RMB. 

Mo Xiaofeng was fetched back to Fuda Cancer Hospital in order not to delay her treatment. Xiaofeng’s tumor shrank after she underwent interventional therapy, argon-helium cryosurgery, and percutaneous ethanol injection therapy, Now, Xiaofeng can walk as a normal person. She has regained a new life with the help of Xu Kecheng and people from all walks of life.