It is positive for a cancer patient to start treatment as soon as possible, but only if he or she is actually a cancer patient.

The various methods used to treat tumors have significant side effects on the human body. From radiotherapy to chemotherapy and even experimental immune cell therapy...... As long as it is a treatment, it will definitely have side effects on the body. And some side effects can even be fatal.

For cancer patients, the possible side effects of treatment are far less dangerous than the disease itself. Therefore, you don't need to worry too much about anything else – unless there are some intolerable side effects during the treatment.

However, for healthy people or patients with non-oncological diseases, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are almost not beneficial, but can be extremely traumatic and risky. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for a doctor to prescribe cancer treatment drugs for an ordinary patient unless pathological tests confirm that the patient has cancer.

Even if it looks like cancer on imaging. Even if the tumor marker rises, there is only pathological testing that can confirm the diagnosis of the tumor.

She has already done two pathology tests, and the test samples are from the top pathology department in China. Sun Lien's diagnosis of the tumor itself is not averse, after all, it also meets most of her symptoms. "A third biopsy? It's too much damage to her, isn't it?"

"If a tumor is to be diagnosed, pathology testing is a must. Rachel empathized with Sun's concerns, "but she also ...... It's pathetic. Three brain biopsies, even if the cancer is really miraculously cured, she will have very serious neurological defects in the future, right? Such a child will have no quality of life in the rest of her life. Although shaking her head, as a doctor in the oncology department and a related expert, Rachel still put forward her own professional advice, "I have just discussed this issue with Yourong, and the two of us have a less mature proposal. ”

An oncologist and a deputy chief neurosurgeon worked together to come up with a ...... Less mature advice?Sun Lien was a little curious, "What advice?"

"The patient has no light response in both eyes at all, and there is no light perception at all, so we can basically say that she has lost her vision and the probability of recovery is very low. Rachel may seem a little embarrassed, but she continues, "Considering that her first symptom was vision loss, if I want to take a third sample, I would recommend taking a sample from one side of the optic nerve for a biopsy." ”

If a sample biopsy is performed only from the optic nerve, it is true that the damage caused by the biopsy can be controlled to a great extent. But...... The cost of this is also obvious – the side of Tang Min's vision that underwent the biopsy will be irreparably damaged.

The optic nerve gradually thickens as the child grows. And Tang Min's optic nerve has become thicker than the optic nerve of an adult because of the impact of this non-fatal disease. But...... It's still only about five millimeters in size. If a biopsy is performed in this area, one optic nerve will inevitably be amputated. And the damage to the nerves will be permanent damage that cannot be reversed.

Rachel's proposal was valuable, but it was also unacceptable. Sun Lien couldn't even tell whether he should accept the proposal and relay it directly to Tang Min's parents, or continue to seek the advice of other experts. In fact, Sun Lien himself thinks that this is probably the least harmful and easiest plan to operate. But from the bottom of his heart, he still hopes that there will be other options.

Sun Lien was silent for a while and then said, "I'...... I'll ask another doctor for a biopsy...... While other traumas are relatively manageable, they are also somewhat too costly. At the very least, ask the ophthalmologists and neurologists to determine whether there is a chance that her vision will recover. ”

Rachel looked a little unhappy, she looked at Sun Lien and said, "If you think that my opinion with Yourong is unreliable, then you can just say it......

Xu Yourong interrupted his wife's complaints, and she seriously explained to Rachel, "It's not that Dr. Sun doesn't believe us, he just hopes that the child can have other ways to test for less harm." Xu Yourong stood with Sun Lien on this issue, "I said before that the injury of optic nerve biopsy is not easy to accept in China, and you still don't believe it." ”

"Even if you don't have your life, do you still have to care about visual damage?" Rachel still couldn't quite understand this idea, but she accepted Xu Yourong's opinion, "Okay, you're right. ”

Rachel is, after all, a native American, and the patients she has experienced have huge cultural differences from Chinese. And this difference made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Sun Lien was a little apologetic, he said solemnly, "I definitely don't mean to distrust you and Dr. Xu......" He was about to continue to explain, but the door of the small conference room was suddenly pushed open.

"Sister Xu! Rachel!" Hu Jia poked her head out from behind the door, and then her face was full of excited smiles, "I knew you were here!"

The three girls happily hugged each other, the three of them laughed and cried, and Sun Lien looked confused. After a while, the three girls calmed down a little, and they began to talk excitedly about their recent experiences. And Sun Lien was still sitting on the side, looking confused and unable to insert a word.

After sitting for a while, Hu Jia realized that he had snubbed his boyfriend. So Nurse Xu waved her hand, "You go get busy first, I'll talk to Sister Yourong for a while......" Speaking of this, she suddenly changed her tone and asked, "Do you have something serious?"

"It's okay, it's okay, we're all done. Sun Lien hurriedly explained, he got up from his seat, "Then I'll go back to the office first, and lead you to come over after talking to Dr. Xu?"

"We still have to talk, you go about your business first. Hu Jia was a lot more relieved now, she continued to hold Xu Yourong's hand, and then began to gossip with her eyes shining, "I heard that you are married?"

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Sun Lien returned to his office, and the first thing he did when he came back was to check the progress of the old thing's work.

The old thing on the desktop was still smoking in his head, and even after the screen was unlocked, he turned his head and glared at Sun Lien off-screen complainingly, and then continued to squat on the ground and look at something with a magnifying glass.

Sun Lien scolded the engineers who designed the old thing for adding too many useless things to it, and at the same time opened the operation interface of the old thing.

"The diagnosis is 6% ahead of schedule, and it is expected that there will be 60 hours left before completion. This line of prompt is written on the old thing's interface. And the old thing also turned his head and glanced at Sun Lien off-screen again when Sun Lien checked the completion time.

But this time, Sun Lien seemed to see a hint of schadenfreude on the old thing's face.