According to Sisi's current condition, it is impossible to go to school normally. Yang Ping had a long talk with Sisi's parents and hoped that Sisi could temporarily suspend school and receive hospitalization.
Although no suitable treatment plan has been found yet, hospitalization can provide symptomatic treatment, monitor the development of the disease, and provide timely rescue when life is in danger.
Medical treatment plans can be divided into causative treatment and symptomatic treatment. Causal treatment is to treat the cause of the disease, while symptomatic treatment is to treat the symptoms. It can be simply understood as the difference between treating the root cause and treating the symptoms.
Unfortunately, most of our current treatment options for diseases are symptomatic treatments, and only a very small number of diseases are caused by treatments.
That is to say, most diseases cannot be cured, and only a few diseases can be cured. Those diseases that seem to be cured actually only rely on the body's own immunity for recovery, and medicine only provides assistance.
The most successful treatment for causes is the treatment of bacterial infections. Before the emergence of penicillin, the mortality rate of bacterial infections was alarming. Any infectious disease can kill a person. Since the emergence of antibiotics such as penicillin, bacterial infectious diseases can be said to have been conquered by humans.
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Antibiotics treat disease-causing bacteria and eliminate them. Therefore, after the bacteria are eliminated, the disease will naturally recover.
Therefore, there are only a handful of diseases that can cure the root cause, and there are many diseases that can treat the symptoms. The disease that humans are most likely to encounter is acute upper respiratory tract infection, which we commonly call "cold". The most common cold is viral infection. At present, except for a few viruses
There are effective antiviral drugs, but there are no effective antiviral drugs for most viruses.
In fact, all the drugs and methods used in modern medicine to treat colds are to relieve the symptoms of the disease and cannot change the course of the disease itself. They just make the patient feel more comfortable during the illness, and the recovery from the cold completely depends on the human body itself.
The immune system has nothing to do with cold medicine. Many medicines even play a psychological comfort role without any real effect.
Another example is high blood pressure, diabetes, etc., which are all symptomatic treatments and use drugs to control blood pressure and blood sugar, but they cannot eliminate the causes of abnormal blood pressure and blood sugar. Even why abnormal blood pressure and blood sugar occur, the mechanism is not very clear at present.
When Sisi was hospitalized for the first time, it was Professor Zhang Zongshun who admitted her to the hospital, so Professor Zhang had always been concerned about her condition and would come over to chat with Yang Ping from time to time to understand her situation. Professor Zhang heard that Sisi's condition had worsened and the tumor had
Systemic metastases appeared, and metastases were also found in the intracranial brain stem, showing diffuse growth, so Mr. Zhang was very worried about Sisi.
Professor Zhang is over eighty years old. It can be said that he has seen through many things and has long passed the age of taking things as joy and sorrow.
In Yang Ping's office, he stared at Sisi's MRI images for a long time. After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "Can't we cut it now?"
"No, tumors in the lungs, liver, and peritoneum can be removed, but it is meaningless to only remove tumors in these parts. Surgery is purely for the sake of surgery. Metastases in the brain are the key. If the intracranial tumors cannot be treated, only treat other parts.
It doesn't make any sense, it's just a slap in the face, it's counterproductive." Yang Ping always spoke straightforwardly to Professor Zhang.
"Tumors in this area are difficult to treat. What will happen if they continue to develop?" Professor Zhang knew the consequences, but he still asked one more question.
Yang Ping pointed at the intracranial tumor on the image with a pencil and said: "Whether it's tumor rupture and bleeding, imminent oppression, or damage to brain cells, once the critical point is exceeded, the result will be a stop of breathing and heartbeat, and there is no way to save it.
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"It's difficult!"
"So I keep her in the hospital now. If this child was not in the hospital, she might die one day."
"We went around in a big circle, but we didn't get around it after all."
"yes."
"There are currently no new drugs targeting this type of tumor in the field of targeted therapy? Internationally?"
Professor Zhang is an old expert in orthopedics and has a certain reserve of knowledge about tumors. He still reads the latest literature every day, but his grasp of the latest knowledge is definitely not as good as that of young people.
Targeted therapy drugs are actually developing well now. Some tumors can be controlled only through targeted therapy, while a few tumors can be cured radically by relying on targeted therapy.
Yang Ping shook his head: "There are currently no effective targeted drugs for this tumor. There are currently several clinically applied targeted drugs that are not very effective, but are better than nothing."
"What about CAR-T cell therapy? Is there any progress in this area?" Professor Zhang was very determined to find out.
One million and two hundred thousand shots of CAR-T cell therapy can cure non-Hodgkin lymphoma and achieve the goal of completely eliminating tumor cells. This effect can be described as amazing in tumor treatment.
"The excellent results of CAR-T cell therapy are only limited to the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and there is no effective solution for the treatment of other tumors." Yang Ping denied again.
"Immunotherapy? Biological therapy? Isn't there one that is feasible?" Professor Zhang raised his voice.
Yang Ping still shook his head. If there was a way, he wouldn't sit here chatting with him for so long and go straight to the topic.
Professor Zhang didn't speak anymore. He just looked at the MRI pictures on the electronic screen quietly, squinting his eyes slightly.
He has encountered this helpless situation countless times in his decades of medical practice. This is not the first time, and it will not be the last.
"Try your best, try to improve the quality of life and make the child's walking less painful. This can be done."
Professor Zhang stood up, moved his waist, and then walked out of the doctor's office with his hands behind his back. Yang Ping looked at his back, still feeling a little uncomfortable.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, every doctor wants to cure his or her patients, but often cannot do so.
After walking a few steps, Professor Zhang turned around and looked into the doctor's office and saw Zhang Lin instructing the interns on how to write medical records.
"Xiao Zhang, gather the people together and come to the duty room to work overtime!" Professor Zhang shouted.
Zhang Lin is quite busy now and has not finished explaining the medical records to the interns, so he replied: "I am very busy today, or tomorrow."
"What are you busying yourself with? Come on, bring the team over. Let's do something fun for everyone today." Professor Zhang said in an unquestionable tone.
Zhang Lin immediately put down what he was doing and started to pick up his cell phone and ask people, "What's wrong with the old man today? Why does he feel a little angry? What he said is not right."
Sisi was very relaxed. She no longer cared about how her condition would change, so this time Yang Ping did not explain her condition to her, and she did not ask or inquire about her condition from her parents. Maybe
Over and over again, I have become accustomed to these things.
At this time, Yang Ping couldn't help but think of Luo Jin, who is now playing football in Europe. He heard that after the operation, he could only survive and could no longer play football. He gave up the operation and would rather spend the remaining time playing on the green field than undergo surgery.
Luo Jin has experienced too many hardships since childhood. Perhaps he has glimpsed the true meaning of life, and his thoughts are different from ordinary people.
Judging from some of the examination images sent back by Luo Jin, it seems that he doesn't have much time left, but he doesn't care.
Sisi was in the same mood now. This time, she was as calm as water, without any anxiety or impatience, as if nothing had happened.
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While Yang Ping was worrying, good news came from Professor He. The simple primary model of artificial intelligence designed by his team for the laboratory was ready for use.
This model is just a small lightweight model, and they are also preparing to develop a large artificial intelligence model.
Before the large-scale model is developed, the laboratory of Sanbo Hospital can temporarily use this small model for transition.
This is good news. Yang Ping decided to use this artificial intelligence model to screen and transform the virus immediately. If we relied on manpower to screen and transform the virus, it would take at least several years to find a suitable virus delivery vehicle. Now there is an artificial intelligence model to assist
, which can greatly shorten this time.
Even if what Professor He has launched now is just a rough and simple model, it is still hundreds of times more powerful than human power.
In the past, because of the system space as an aid, Yang Ping could put the entire test screening process in the system space, which could greatly save time. Now that the system space is temporarily out of service, Yang Ping can only find a way by himself. The best way is to use the computer
, especially artificial intelligence.
However, artificial intelligence models cannot be developed just by developing them. It requires a certain amount of time to accumulate technology.
However, money makes things easier. In order to develop this artificial intelligence model, Ruixing Group has spent huge sums of money to acquire several outstanding start-up companies in the world. This can save time and is much better than starting everything from scratch.
As a partner of Yang Ping, Professor He can share the technologies acquired by Ruixing Group. Professor He's current team used the acquired technologies to reorganize and improve, and soon made an artificial intelligence model that can be used immediately.
In the future, they will learn from each other's strengths, synthesize these models, and then build their own brand new large model.
After hearing the news, Lu Xiaolu immediately took people to Professor He's digital medicine laboratory at Nandu Medical University to use their model to screen and transform the virus.
For about two hours, it proposed hundreds of thousands of plans for virus screening and transformation, then sorted these plans and finally selected a dozen optimal plans.
Yang Ping decided to conduct laboratory culture immediately after the virus screening and transformation was completed.
Yang Ping and he will use these cultured special viruses directly on Sisi.
This was indeed too risky and unethical, but he had no better way and he had to race against time.
When virologist Beata Harassi used oncolytic virus therapy to treat her own triple-negative breast cancer, she used her own body for experiments. In history, many scientists have used their own bodies for experiments.
This can save experimental time.
But Sisi is different. Once clinical experiments are conducted directly on her, she and her family will definitely agree and will fully cooperate.
But society will definitely not agree. Yang Ping will face ethical torture, social doubts, and public opinion turmoil in the future.
Once he fails, and if Sisi dies, he is likely to fall into the ethical condemnation of the entire society, and eventually be ruined. In most cases, the torrent of social condemnation is not rational at all, let alone in-depth thinking.
No matter what, how much is reputation worth? Compared with human life, reputation is nothing!
Yang Ping sat in his office and thought about this matter. When he was an ordinary young doctor, although he worked hard, without the help of the system, it would be impossible to achieve what he is today. After so much learning and training,
Isn’t it just about treating illnesses and saving lives? If you shrink back for the sake of your own reputation, then you don’t deserve to have this system.
He couldn't care about so much anymore, he needed speed, and Sisi didn't have time to wait.
When Yang Ping proposed to use the special virus directly on Sisi, Dean Xia, Director Han, Song Zimo, Xu Zhiliang, etc. all looked at him in surprise.
"This is a brand new and special virus. You use it directly on the human body without any ethical review. If it causes Sisi's death, the public opinion consequences will be very serious. You have to think clearly!" Dean Xia said.
"I have thought clearly, I must do this." Yang Ping said firmly.
Dean Xia paced back and forth in the office. Once this incident happened, public opinion would be overwhelming. If it was used by certain forces, it would be like a torrential flood.
Yang Ping will definitely be ruined by then!
"Do you want to think about it? Are there any other ways?"
"I've thought it through, there's no other way."
"Must you do this?"
"must!"
"Okay, I am the first to support you. You are not afraid. I am afraid of a ball. I have been the dean for so many years and I have never done anything crazy. I will do it with you now. I will hold a meeting about this.
, if something happens, I, Xia Changjiang, will take care of it."
To this end, Yang Ping called everyone together and began to implement his plan.
The modified virus model demonstrated with 3D animation is suspended on the electronic screen. The K factor is embedded in the virus to form a composite protein structure. This is a brand new virus.
This is a magical virus that has been subjected to virtual experiments in the virtual environment of Professor He's Digital Medicine Laboratory. It can carry K factor, reach tumors through blood circulation, then infect those tumor cells, and then initiate the apoptosis program of tumor cells.
Eventually, the tumor cells die, leaving normal cells unaffected.
According to normal procedures, the ethical approval of this kind of experiment is extremely strict. After the sample is produced, the next step should be animal experiment. After the animal experiment is qualified, it can enter clinical trials after passing various approvals.
Yang Ping calculated that the whole process would take about 5-10 years. How could Sisi have ten years to wait? Whether she could survive tomorrow was unknown.
No matter whether this plan works or not, it is the only possible effective method and can only be treated as a dead horse.