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Chapter 748 I love you, but I love myself more

medical center.

outside the ward.

The four urban girls are speechless.

It's not that they don't understand Adam's words.

It's just that when this kind of thing happens to them, even if it's a great misfortune, their humor cells can't be used.

after all.

All in all it's unfortunate.

This is cancer, or breast cancer.

"Adam, if the diagnosis... how to treat it?"

Kelly glanced at Samantha cautiously and asked.

"Didn't Dr. Pierce tell you?"

Adam was surprised: "If the diagnosis is breast cancer, Samantha is still young, and her physical condition can withstand surgery, so surgical treatment is the first choice.

If the diagnosis is early, you can choose breast-conserving surgery, which only removes the tumor and 1 to 2 cm of surrounding tissue.

The advantage of this is self-evident, but the disadvantage is that it cannot be guaranteed that there will be no recurrence, and regular review is required after surgery.

The other is eradication.

As the name implies, it is to remove the entire breast, pectoralis major, pectoralis minor, all lymph nodes in the armpit, internal thoracic arteries and veins and surrounding lymph nodes, and all breast cancer tissues that may become cancerous, so as to completely eradicate the possibility of breast cancer..."

"hiss."

The three daughters of Kelly gasped.

"Then, is that still a woman?"

Charlotte whispered in disbelief.

"Plastic surgery can be done later..."

Adam pondered: "The effect of eradication is good, but because the excision range is too large, it has a great impact on the quality of life of patients after surgery, so this kind of extended eradication is rarely used.

Now most of them are undergoing modified radical excision, which preserves the pectoral muscles, and is combined with plastic surgery after surgery. The appearance is better and it is easier to be accepted by patients. "

"Eradication means completely eradicating the root and not recurring?"

Senior Attorney Miranda asked.

"Sorry, I have to look at this again."

Adam shook his head and said: "Unless it is particularly early stage, only 60% to 70% of early breast cancer patients can be completely cured, and the remaining 30% to 40% may still relapse.

Therefore, long-term follow-up, close follow-up, and regular review are routine activities for cancer patients.

And early detection and early treatment is really a very lucky thing. "

"What about chemotherapy?"

Miranda pressed: "Do you need chemotherapy? I heard that chemotherapy can cause hair loss?"

"Ah."

Adam nodded: "It's nothing to lose hair after chemotherapy. If you stop chemotherapy later, it will grow back, but chemotherapy will indeed damage the body's own immunity and make people more likely to get sick.

After surgery for cancer, chemotherapy is often required.

But if breast cancer is detected early enough, endocrine therapy or targeted therapy with fewer side effects can be used instead of chemotherapy, which is also possible.

Anyway..."

"In short, it is very lucky to find out that Samantha has breast cancer in advance today!"

Kelly concluded with joy.

"Yes, as long as it is detected early enough, breast cancer can't harm Samantha at all."

Miranda and Charlotte also understood Kelly's meaning and actively echoed.

"Thank you!"

Samantha felt a little better, put away her self-mockery, and said something sincerely.

After hearing so much, she found that the greatest hope was early detection and early treatment, which Adam kept emphasizing.

The sooner it is discovered, the better.

At first, like many early patients, she didn't notice it at all, or didn't take it seriously when she was a little strange.

Today, if she hadn't teased Adam to ask him to check her, and Adam ignored her teasing, he pointed out the risks very professionally and asked her to do the check.

God knows if after a while, it will be life and death, or the difference between life and life is worse than death.

"I am a doctor."

Adam smiled and said, "This is my job."

"I want you to be my doctor!"

Samantha took a deep breath and said, "Can you?"

"of course can."

Adam smiled and said, "If you're ready, I can help you arrange a biopsy right now to make a diagnosis as soon as possible."

Cancer is generally dealt with exclusively by oncology departments.

But surgery can be done by a surgeon.

Adam can help Samantha perform the operation, and then transfer her to an oncologist, who will be responsible for the long-term follow-up, close follow-up, and regular review.

Oncologists are happy too.

Because these are the fixed patient groups of their oncologists, the luxury sports car depends on this stable and expanding patient group.

Adam can actually do it himself.

Because the average patient is a doctor who believes in the operation and succeeds in performing surgery on them.

Many patients prefer to find a doctor they trust no matter what disease they have in the later stage, even if the specialty is not the right one, and then the doctor they trust will decide whether to handle it by themselves or hand it over to another doctor.

To know.

Doctors in American dramas transfer patients to each other, but there is a share.

Because of the industrialization of medical care in the United States, introducing a patient to you is an introduction, and introducing a patient to him is also an introduction. Unless the patient’s condition is an intractable disease, you must do it, otherwise there is no benefit, so why should you introduce it?

And if you say it out of conscience, even if you have to, as long as I don't say it, how will the patient know?

At that time, he won't be the one who will die anyway, and the cost of the treatment will not be less at all, and if it doesn't work out, he will earn more money.

This is a test of the doctor's medical ethics.

This is why once a patient trusts a certain doctor, he will hold on to it and turn to him for any illness.

Adam is worthy of the patient's trust, but Adam is not short of that little money, he only needs time. If there are too many people for this kind of follow-up follow-up, it will take too much time for him to treat diseases and save lives.

Therefore, Adam always pays attention to the trends in the medical field, and does not let gossip news go.

Not only to understand the medical skills of these colleagues, but also to secretly evaluate their medical ethics, so as to know what they are.

Otherwise, when he transfers the patient to the hands of the so-called famous doctor who looks brilliant on the outside but has corrupt medical ethics on the inside, wouldn't he have failed the patient's trust in him?
Just do it!

Adam took Samantha for a biopsy. Under the guidance of ultrasound, he punctured the suspected breast cancer mass, took out a small amount of mass tissue, and sent it to the laboratory for urgent pathological examination.

Breast cancer was diagnosed, and it was particularly early.

Adam specially consulted with the oncology doctor in charge, and then arranged for Samantha to be hospitalized with the consent of Samantha. First, she will undergo various preoperative examinations. If there is no problem, the breast-conserving surgery will be performed tomorrow.

Yes.

Samantha opted for breast-conserving surgery.

If it is not a last resort, there are not many women who are as decisive as Dr. Montgomery's friend.

Just because of heredity, she might get it, so she directly underwent double mastectomy, pseudo-breast transplantation, hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy...

This friend of Dr. Montgomery insisted on this despite her husband's repeated persuasion, although her husband left first and then appeared again when she was undergoing surgery.

It seems that he compromised and chose to support his wife in this very impulsive decision.

But I don't know how they are now...

This is the biggest and cruelest test of whether there is true love between them.

It is said that heterosexual love is only for reproduction.

Then Dr. Montgomery's couple of friends who have no possibility of reproduction should be the best example of whether true love exists.

But Adam is not optimistic about this.

Because true love, like human nature, cannot be tested.

Especially on longer timelines.

Maybe everyone is: "I love you, but I love myself more..."

(End of this chapter)