The creation of the “Tianhe Technique” attracted attention. Attending the International Academic Conference with illness
It rained heavily in Guangzhou yesterday, and the sky seemed to be crying for him: at around 20:40 on June 23, after fighting pancreatic cancer for 15 months, Wang Lei, deputy director of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, passed away. The cancer fighter stopped breathing. Not long ago, he just celebrated his 50th birthday. He worked hard and led his team to establish the “Tianhe Technique” to improve the quality of patients’ survival, which attracted attention from the industry. While he was suffering from severe illness and knew that there was not much in the future, he still went abroad to attend academic conferences with illness to bring glory to the country. He spent his whole life telling the story of benevolent medicine.
On June 24, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University released Professor Wang Lei’s obituary. The reporter learned that the farewell ceremony for Professor Wang Lei’s body is scheduled to be held at 11:30 on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in Baiyun Hall, Galaxy Park, Guangzhou Funeral Home.
In March 2018, Wang Lei was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, the “king of cancer”. Before this, he had been deeply engaged in the field of digestive tract tumors for more than 20 years.
He is kind-hearted and devoted himself to the medical career, and has been committed to the clinical and translational research of colorectal cancer and radioactive enteritis for a long time. The achievements he has achieved are related to improving the quality of life of patients, and has achieved remarkable results in medical teaching and research fields.
The radioactive enteritis diagnosis and treatment team led by him manages the largest radioactive intestinal diagnosis and treatment center in China. The original new surgery for the expansion of the left hemiplegia of rectal cancer – the “Tianhe surgery” has attracted great attention from the medical community.
After more than a year of illness, he fought tenaciously against the disease, and at the same time Cinema, racing against time and fighting fate. “I already know my life period, so I grow backwards, treating every day as the last day, so that every day will be meaningful.” He once said this.
Dr. Wang Lei, you have a good journey!
The “King of Cancer” has entangled anti-cancer experts
Pancreatic cancer is known as the “King of Cancer”, and Apple founder Jobs also died of pancreatic cancer. Wang Lei is an oncology expert and never thought that he would be related to this disease.
In the second half of 2017, Wang Lei often felt low back pain and the cold did not heal. At first, he thought it was just overworking and didn’t care much. By March 2018, after a physical examination at the employee, Wang Lei’s tumor marker CEA was abnormally increased. Further examination results showed that pancreatic cancer, in advanced stage, cancer cells had spread to the liver.
He was only 49 years old at this time, and his clinical, scientific research and hospital management were doing well, witnessing the successful start of Zhongshan Sixth Hospital from the establishment of the hospital to the successful entry into the track. The research on radioactive enteritis is being vigorously promoted, but at this critical moment, it faces a “joke” of fate. When he returned home that night, Wang Lei held his wife’s hand tightly, and his wife felt his powerlessness.
Life Komiks faces the biggest suffering of Cinema. Wang Lei had thought of giving up treatment, but he quickly adjusted himself.
On April 1, 2018, Wang Lei lies under the shadowless lamp that he is most familiar with and underwent more than ten hours of surgery. His spleen, 80% of the pancreas, most of the stomach, and the nerves that control the intestine were removed on a large scale. Although the operation was successful, he lost the ability to eat independently and needed nutritional needles to maintain his life. A slight change in temperature would directly disrupt the body’s temperature control and regulation system, and his always strong body became weak overnight.
Burning the last moment of life
However, not long after the operation, Wang Lei started working again and played the role of a good doctor and scientific researcher.
In the past 15 months, Wang Lei has composed a life answer sheet with his steely will, which has impressed many cancer patients and medical staff. The reporter learned that the patient who received palliative surgery had a survival period of about 7 months, and Wang Lei had fought for 15 months; he could not eat independently after the operation, and two months after the operation, he was still receiving patients. His weak body once stood at the venue of the American Clinical Oncology Conference, explaining to nearly 10,000 tumor experts from around the world that the only colorectal cancer research report from China in the field of the digestive tract…
When he was young, he thought about the way of life, and Wang Lei had a clear understanding of himself: he would rather burn for 3 years than just spend 30 years. “I may not be able to extend the length of my life, but I can dominate the thickness of my life.” He once said this.
Wang Lei’s colleagues, friends and relatives saw this scene-
Two months after the operation, he attended the 53rd Chicago American Clinical Oncology Conference. As a representative of the creative team, he gave the only oral report from China in the field of gastrointestinal tract to nearly 10,000 experts and scholars from the frontier fields of tumors around the world. In order to participate in this meeting, he lay in the hospital bed for 10 hours to store his physical strength. His submission to the General Assembly on localized advanced rectalCinemaThe results of the controlled research on neoadjuvant therapy for cancer are of great value to the treatment guidelines for advanced rectal cancer in countries around the world.
Annual ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting is recognized as the most important oncology academic conference in the world. Last year, Wang Lei, who was already ill, attended the annual meeting and his hair fell out due to chemotherapy.
I once went to the office before 7 o’clock every day
In 1969, Wang Lei was born in a medical family in Henan. His parents and grandfather were both famous doctors in the county. The home he grew up with was less than 50 meters away from the hospital operating room. Seeing his father, who was a surgeon, save lives, Wang Lei set his future life goals in his heart.
In 1987, Wang Lei applied to the Department of Clinical Medicine at Zhengzhou University. Although he was later transferred to Komiks majored in stomatology, but he never gave up on his ideal of becoming a surgeon.
At the end of 1995, Wang Lei and BabaylanThe newlywed wife went south to Guangzhou. She first studied general surgery at the Jinan University Affiliated Hospital. Later, she was admitted to the master’s degree at Sun Yat-sen Medical University, becoming a student of Wang Jianping, a leader in colorectal surgery in China and the first dean of Zhongshan Sixth Hospital. After graduation, he stayed at the school to work in the Department of Gastroenterology Surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. In 2000, Wang Lei studied for a Ph.D.
The pursuit of scientific research has kept Wang Lei in a state of “knowledge hunger”. In September 2001, Wang Lei applied to go to the world’s top cancer hospital, the Anderson Cancer Center, the United States, to engage in postdoctoral research in the field of digestive tract tumors in the Department of Molecular Pathology.
After returning from the American postdoctoral research, Wang Lei and more than 30 colleagues came to Tianhe District, Guangzhou in 2007, and stationed in a simple three- and four-story building, becoming an affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe Sixth Hospital founded the land reclamation cattle.
In 2011, Wang Lei was promoted to vice president, and has successively managed scientific research, teaching, personnel, logistics, information and clinical practice. He insisted on going to the hospital at 7 a.m. every day, going home at 10 p.m., and going to other places to give lectures, exchanges, and meetings on weekends. Chu Lili, head nurse of the department, asked him how many times he could go home a week, and Wang Lei replied: “No more than two nights. “Chu Lili said that Wang Lei must arrive at the office before 7 am every day and did not experience the traffic jam during the morning rush hour.Lei sets an example so that his colleagues dare not be negligent about their work.
In 2016, Zhongshan Sixth Hospital was rated as a Grade A Hospital, and its gastrointestinal and anal surgery department then became the leading position in the field of colorectal and anal diseases diagnosis and treatment in China, and other comprehensive disciplines were also booming.
In the past ten years, Wang Lei has adhered to the principle of “patient first”. Although he has received countless thanks, only a calligraphy work of “The best is like water” is hung in his office.
Many achievements improve the quality of life of patients
”I love surgery on patients, and when I get to the operating table, I feel full of power. I love scientific research even more. Life is full of mysteries. There are so many places to innovate in surgical medicine. These subtle changes can directly affect people’s destiny.” Wang Lei once said emotionally. When he said this, his wife sat aside and held his hand tightly to show that her husband’s persistence and passion for medicine had almost reached the state of “being possessed”.
Wang Lei established sexual function protection surgery technology to reduce the incidence of sexual dysfunction after rectal cancer from 70% to 15%; the treatment of patients with middle and advanced rectal cancer in the past generally refers to the US NCCN guidelines, and first undergo synchronous chemotherapy before surgical resection was performed to establish a pure neoadjuvant chemotherapy plan. After surgery, many patients are prone to radioactive damage and have poor quality of life. He successfully established a new preoperative treatment plan for “simple and full-quantity chemotherapy” to radiotherapy. The US NCCN guidelines quoted this research result.
For patients who have received radiotherapy, Professor Wang Lei established a unique surgical procedure – proximal Cinema expansion resection, and named it “BabaylanTianhe surgical procedure” after the Tianhe District where Zhongshan Sixth Hospital is located. Tianhe surgery reduces the incidence of anastomosis-related complications, reduces the chance of anastomosis fistula in patients and improves quality of life.
In order to further improve the quality of postoperative survival of cancer patients, Wang Lei focused his research on relatively unpopular radioactive enteritis. The incidence of radioactive enteritis in pelvic radiotherapy is as high as about 20%. Hemorrhagic radioprotic inflammation in Komiks is coming fiercely and recurs, and the patient is suffering and very painful. A few patients end their pain by suicide.
Wang Lei’s team summarized the classification treatment plan for hemorrhagic radioactive enteritis (i.e., the three technologies for the treatment of radioactive enteritis) to solve the problems for these suffering patients.
Work, wife and children, ideals… He has too many things to let go.
Once, Wang Lei had too many things to “can’t let go”.
Wang Lei once posted a notice of “No visit” in front of his ward – he never wanted to show it to others as a patient, and he was even more unwilling to inform relatives and friends.Sickness, showing pain.
Last March, Wang Lei learned about the teacher’s condition and proposed visits. Some students even took planes and high-speed rail to the hospital. Wang Lei refused to visit at that time, and the text under his hand book: “I don’t need comfort. At this moment, I don’t treat myself as a patient. I treat pancreatic cancer as a friend in my body. I want to learn how to get along with it again.”
Wang Lei once said that he knew that taking gradually increased painkillers will continue to increase their dependence on drugs, and will eventually collapse due to the inability to relieve pain. He longs to prolong and slow down the process, so he chooses to overcome physiological pain in the most painful way – with his will.
At the beginning of Wang Lei’s diagnosis of cancer, the doctors judged that Wang Lei’s life was only 3 months away. As a result, Wang Lei fought against fate for 15 months and was still trying immature advanced pancreatic cancer treatment plans. Wang Lei once admitted that this was because he “can’t let go”.
In the ward, Wang Lei once revealed his thoughts – in the past 27 years of his career, he devoted all his efforts to his medical career and owed his wife and children a lot. Since he got sick, he began to think about the meaning of life and everything around him. He longs to live one more day, spend more time with his family, and make up for his debts to his wife.
In the past 15 months, Wang Lei’s wife has been with him day and night. They took a walk, went to the park together, and went to buy vegetables together. They held hands and felt the daily life carefully. The couple spent more than a year together than the previous 25 years combined.
”Can’t let go of Komiks” also comes from a lifetime of medical ideals. Wang Lei once admitted that the scientific research on radioactive enteritis has been going through more than ten years, and the team has silently persevered and made efforts. Last year, it was awarded the first prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award. Scientific research is at the critical point. He does not want his condition to affect the progress of the entire team. “The clinical field has been cultivated and mature, and scientific research still needs to be guided by professors. I don’t want the students to have emotional fluctuations as soon as I leave, which will affect the research.”
Before his death, Wang Lei was interviewed by a reporter. He said that life is like a journey. He is ready to be the passenger who gets off the bus early. Although the final result may be a bad result, before he really falls, he still has to be the master of his own destiny and make every day meaningful.
As for Wang Lei’s debt to his wife and daughter, his wife said: “He just did what he should do in this era.”
【Voice】
”I first met you in 1995. You came to our subject to further study. I just graduated from a master’s degree and was a soldier who had just entered the field of laparoscopy. I was moved by your simplicity and learning. The common experience of working in a county hospital in mainland China made us soon become friends. Later, you were admitted to the school of great Principal Wang, and then studied in the United States. As one of the main assistants, he assisted Principal Wang to establish Zhongshan Sixth Hospital. His career and academic smoothly and progressed rapidly. More arduous tasks are waiting for you. I don’t want God to be jealous of talent and die young. Professor Wang Lei, I hope you can go well all the way!”
——Doctor, professor, chief physician, doctoral supervisor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University (Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital), doctoral doctor, doctoral supervisor, currently vice president and stomach of Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksWang Cunchuan, Director of the Department of Intestinal Surgery
”I hope your Tianhe surgery will treat more patients, may your students inherit your scientific research and academic research, and continue to explore the mysteries of medicineBabaylan, and may your perseverance in fighting death encourage more patients. Professor Wang Lei, our former comrades, go well along the way, and miss you forever.”
——Feng Xia, Chief Physician of the Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen UniversityCinema
The night before was oxygen-inhaling rescue, and the next day he appeared at the preliminary review meeting of the Guangdong Science and Technology Award as usual to explain the research results of innovative treatment of radioactive enteritis to the review experts. This Cinema result finally won the first prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award. This year, he took the lead in jointly formulating and publishing the “China Expert Consensus for Diagnosis and Treatment of Radioprotic Technitis (2018)” with more than 30 experts across the country.
As a patient with advanced cancer and a doctor, Babaylan reappears in the clinic and gives more psychological comfort to those who are fighting cancer; at medical seminars on Wednesday afternoons, he can often be seen attending the meeting while taking out some drips. Even if his body allows him, he will still undergo a critical operation. At most, he did two a day. Nine months after the illness, he also took the lead in formulating the diagnosis and treatment of radioprotic inflammation in China.Expert consensus.
Wang Lei, Wang Lei, why are you so desperate? You should have a rest! Faced with such concern, Wang Lei always said: “I am used to working hard, are you asking me to lie in bed and wait? I will devote myself to things I am interested in, and I forgot that I am a patient.” His wife also admitted: “A person who has been operating at a high pace will torture him when he is free.”
Wang Lei drags his sick body to practice the ideal of medicine and touches many medical staff. Many of his students are working hard to move forward silently for this, working with the teacher to promote the scientific research on radioactive enteritis and practice the ideal of doctors.
Planning/Coordination: Zhang Yingzi, Xiao Ping, Zhang XiaoleiBabaylan
Writing: Reporter Li Qiuling, Correspondent Jian Wenyang
Picture: Photo provided by the correspondent