Since the very early cancer project was established, it has been slowly but steadily advancing.
At the beginning, only zero to one very early-stage cancer patient was detected from fifty volunteers.
After a while, it stabilized at one or two people.
After more than half a year of development, it has now reached the level of detecting five or six people out of fifty.
This research and development speed is not too slow to say the least. According to this trend, in two or three years it will reach the level of detecting 15 out of 50 people, which is enough for generalization.
However, Yu Zhiming knows that scientific research will not develop in such a regular manner. It may reach a certain level and fall into a research and development bottleneck, unable to break through for several years.
Another possibility is that under the accumulation of data, a spark of wisdom pops up and a major breakthrough is achieved in one fell swoop.
For Yu Zhiming, it is of course a fantasy and expectation that one day there will be a leap forward and a qualitative improvement.
After all, repetitive work over and over again will always produce some boredom.
Although Yu Zhiming looked forward to breakthroughs from time to time, he never expected that happiness would come so suddenly.
A dream come true, nothing more than this.
Yu Zhiming watched the people in the corridor hugging each other excitedly, jumping, jumping and shouting, but he didn't feel noisy at all.
He walked through the crowd in the corridor, and from time to time he would high-five or simply give a warm hug to the excited R&D team members.
After celebrating together for a while, Yu Zhiming, Teacher Qi Yue, Academician Tan, Academician Zhang, and Gu Qingran came to the soundproof office.
After sitting on the sofa in the reception area, Academician Tan, who was still looking excited, said loudly: "Dr. Yu, just take your annual leave. We will use this time to further develop and sort out the collected data.
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"When you return home from vacation, we will do a few more verifications and then we can start considering promotion matters."
"Has the screening cost been calculated?" Yu Zhiming asked with concern!
Academician Tan nodded and said: "We have made preliminary calculations. Various physical examinations and laboratory analyzes will take two to three days, and the cost per person is close to 20,000."
A liver and stomach cancer screening costs 20,000!
This cost is really not low, and ordinary families may not be able to afford it.
Yu Zhiming frowned slightly, and Gu Qingran's voice sounded in his ears again, "Zhiming, this is still a simple screening cost. If our early R&D investment is included, it will be more than doubled."
Gu Qingran asked again: "Zhiming, do you know what our total R&D investment in this very early cancer project is so far?"
"how much?"
Although Yu Zhiming is also one of the project leaders, he really doesn't pay much attention to the funding issue.
Gu Qingran raised a finger.
"One hundred million?" Yu Zhiming guessed.
Gu Qingran said in a deep voice: "Add another zero."
"So many?" Yu Zhiming was really shocked.
The very early cancer project has only taken ten months from its inception to now.
It is equivalent to consuming 100 million R&D funds in one month, which is not enough to describe the money spent.
Academician Tan took over the conversation and introduced to Yu Zhiming: "We have statistics on the fifty people sent to you before. On average, we have to conduct three screening tests on one thousand people."
"After all the various expenses are calculated, the average cost per person is about 5,000 yuan. In other words, for every 50 people you examine, 5 million yuan will be spent."
After a pause, Academician Tan continued: "Especially today's inspection..."
"To select these 50 people, we conducted three rounds of examinations on a total of 8,673 high-risk groups."
"Especially in the third round of inspections, there were more than 400 people in total, and the inspection cost per person was more than 15,000."
Academician Tan concluded: "The cost of today's inspection alone is more than 100 million."
Yu Zhiming grinned and looked at Gu Qingran, "One billion, Ning'an Group shouldn't be able to afford that much money, right?"
Gu Qingran nodded and said, "That's for sure."
"Ning'an is responsible for one-third of it, and the remaining two-thirds are provided by the municipal government, the National Health Commission and national scientific research special funds."
Academician Zhang, who had never spoken much, chuckled and said, "I have to say, Dr. Yu, you have won the trust of everyone."
"Although this project is extremely expensive, we have never worried about funds. If we don't have enough, we just apply and we have never been stuck with funds."
"That's true!" Academician Tan stroked his head, which had become much thinner, and sighed: "Just seeing so much money being spent every day makes us very stressed."
"If the project lasts for three to five years and there is no tangible result, we won't know how to explain it."
"Fortunately, we are quite lucky."
Academician Tan smiled again and said: "Next, we need to consider promoting and reducing screening costs."
He said casually: "A special detection analyzer can be developed to integrate some key indicators required for screening into one medical instrument, which should be able to reduce the cost of examination a lot."
Gu Qingran also suggested: "Developing special medical instruments cannot be accomplished in a short time."
"The most feasible thing now, I think, is to customize a medical examination vehicle and integrate all the medical instruments and equipment required for screening into one bus."
"Specialized vehicles for mobile cancer screening."
Academician Zhang nodded in approval and said: "I personally think this method is good. Dozens of this kind of medical vehicles have been customized and put into major cities across the country, and they have been promoted."
Academician Tan frowned slightly.
Ning'an has a huge appetite for this medical vehicle.
This is because we want to keep very early cancer screening firmly in our own hands, and we don’t want to share the profits with other medical units.
Academician Tan looked at Gu Qingran, then at Yu Zhiming who didn't express his position, and didn't say much.
He doesn't have to worry about this kind of commercial promotion matters. Anyway, he will not be short of the honors and benefits he deserves.
Yu Zhiming didn't think so much at all.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In his view, the most important thing is to reduce the cost of screening so that low- and middle-income people can afford it...
They chatted for more than ten minutes, and Gu Qingran suggested that it was dinner time, so why not go out and celebrate.
Yu Zhiming refused because he would have to go to the pediatric surgery department later to participate in the separation operation of the conjoined twins.
After sending everyone away, Yu Zhiming went to a single ward on the third floor and conducted a physical examination on Meng Xiumei, who had been transferred here from the intensive care unit.
The test results are quite optimistic. Meng Xiumei's liver and kidney functions are continuing to improve.
Yu Zhiming informed Meng Xiumei and her parents of the test results, and was about to leave, but was stopped.
"Dr. Yu, um, um, the ginseng pills you gave me last time really cost 300,000 per pill?"
Yu Zhiming hummed and comforted: "Don't worry, the money will be paid by Dr. Qiu Yi."
"His family is rich."
Meng Xiumei asked again: "Dr. Yu, if most people take the ginseng pill, there should be no problem, right?"
Yu Zhiming asked doubtfully: "That ginseng pill is mainly used to prolong the life of people who are seriously ill and about to die. Most people have no use at all."
Meng Xiumei said hurriedly: "Doctor Yu, after you fed me the ginseng pills last time, there were still some residues in the medicine bowl."
"My dad felt sorry for the 300,000 yuan for one pill, and he couldn't bear to waste it, so he rinsed it with warm water and drank it himself."
Yu Zhiming was a little speechless.
It seems that Meng Xiumei's problem of taking medicine indiscriminately has its roots.
Yu Zhiming looked at Meng Xiumei's father and saw that the man looked embarrassed and said nervously: "Doctor Yu, from that day to now, I have had two nosebleeds."
"It shouldn't be a big problem, right?"
Yu Zhiming suppressed a smile and said: "It's not a big problem, it's just a sign of getting angry."
He also warned: "Don't take medicine casually in the future. You must take medicine according to the doctor's instructions."
Meng Xiumei's yellow face showed a lingering expression of fear and said: "I almost lost my life this time, but I have remembered it and will not take medicine casually in the future."
"Hey, Doctor Yu, I wasn't feeling well before. Can you find out what's wrong?"
Yu Zhiming said frankly: "No."
"The examination just now showed that except that your liver and kidneys are still recovering and the functions of other organs have been damaged due to chain reactions, no other strange organ problems were found."
"It may be that you took medicine randomly before, or it was cured during the treatment of liver failure and kidney failure."
Some discomforts or diseases in our bodies sometimes come and go away inexplicably.
The doctor also has no clue.
We humans still have a long, long way to go before we can fully understand and master the mysteries of the human body...
Just a few steps after Yu Zhiming walked out of the ward, he saw Shen Yiyi, radiant in a white coat, coming out of a ward.
"Doctor Yu..."
Shen Yiyi hurriedly came closer with a smile on her face, and said happily: "Congratulations on the major breakthrough in the very early cancer project you led."
"Thank you for your congratulations!"
Yu Zhiming corrected him again: "Strictly speaking, the project is led by Academicians Tan and Zhang, and I can be regarded as a tool."
Shen Yiyi said with admiration: "Dr. Yu, you are so humble. Without your skills as a tool, this project would not exist."
Yu Zhiming smiled softly.
Shen Yiyi asked expectantly again: "Dr. Yu, at your convenience, can I study with you along with my cousin, Dr. Zhou, and Dr. Duan?"
this……
Yu Zhiming pondered and said: "Dr. Shen, you should know from your cousin that they are not studying with me, but mainly helping me organize medical records."
"Other than some auscultation and percussion, I didn't teach them anything at all."
Shen Yiyi said with a smile: "That's not what my cousin said. He told me that your gains during this period of following Dr. Yu will far exceed his improvement in the past few years."
Yu Zhiming said solemnly: "That is definitely his illusion. His improvement mainly comes from his own efforts."
After a pause, he turned to say: "Dr. Shen, my teacher is a hundred times better than me at teaching others. You must not let down my teacher's expectations."
"I still have something to do and have to go back."
Yu Zhiming didn't wait for Shen Yiyi's reaction, raised his legs and left.
The reason why he rejected Shen Yiyi was not only because of the teacher's reasons for not being able to overtake others, but more importantly, Shen Yiyi's external conditions were too outstanding.
After long-term contact, Yu Zhiming felt that there might be some uncontrollable dangers...
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