"Mr. Inolivi, please, we were wrong this time, please don't kill us!"
"Yes, yes, we don't want to die!"
Edward Inolivi was in a bad mood now. This operation could be said to be a complete failure in the end. Whether it was closing the entrance to hell or taking control of the apartment with arms, it was a complete failure. This made him feel very ashamed of Fang Han.
At this time, each of the four people who entered the apartment was tied up and had a gun put to their head.
This is near the No. 1 forest area on the outskirts of K City. It can be said to be inaccessible.
"Okay," Edward winked and said, "Do it."
With the sound of gunshots, these drug dealers who had committed many crimes during their lives were shot in the head and fell to the ground.
Cole walked up to Edward and said with great shame: "This time, it was my dereliction of duty. I sent them in, but let the situation develop to the worst situation. As long as Mr. Fang trusts me..."
"Forget it," Edward waved his hand and said, "According to Mr. Fang's wishes, all current actions against the apartment will be temporarily terminated."
"Just because of a woman?"
"She is not scary when she is alive, but she is scary when she is dead."
Edward looked at the body on the ground and said, "Cole, in the detailed information of the residents sent by Moore, there is a resident whose father has esophageal cancer, right?"
"Yes……"
"When I was doing investment management for Mr. Fang, I bought shares of Geert Pharmaceuticals on Wall Street. They happened to be studying reverse transcription gene therapy and have developed a new targeted drug for esophageal cancer."
"Well... that's right... isn't it?"
"It cannot be entered from the outside, and it can be considered to be disintegrated from the inside."
"This...do you want to ask Mr. Fang for instructions?"
"I will talk to Mr. Fang."
…
A few days later, it was eleven o'clock in the morning.
s City Center First Hospital, Oncology Clinic.
Today is the day when Xie Ruoni brings her father for a follow-up visit after surgery.
"Abdominal contrast-enhanced CT, abdominal and neck ultrasound, liver and kidney function tests, tumor marker tests..."
The doctor printed out the examination items one by one, and then said: "Well, there is one more thing I want to talk to you about. Our hospital is currently cooperating with a multinational pharmaceutical company, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA. They have recently developed
A brand new targeted drug has been developed and is currently entering the clinical stage in the United States."
Upon hearing this, Xie Ruoni quickly asked: "How low can the recurrence rate be reduced?"
"There are differences between European, American and Chinese races. I can't guarantee it, but according to foreign data, the recurrence rate of your father's condition may be reduced by 30%. Because this targeted drug directly uses gene therapy
, as we all know, cancer cells are caused by..."
Xie Ruoni's father quickly asked: "Wait a minute, doctor, then, this imported drug is not covered by medical insurance, right? Isn't it very expensive?"
"Well, the price will indeed be more expensive. The first course of treatment requires medication for half a year, once a month, which costs 20,000 yuan per month."
"Do it! Let's do it!" Xie Ruoni said without hesitation: "Since there is good medicine, of course we should do it!"
"Ruoni, it's too expensive!" Xie Ruoni's father said anxiously, "Twenty thousand a month! Where do you have so much money?"
"It's okay, Dad, you don't have to worry about money." Now that Xie Ruoni has entered the apartment, the last thing she worries about is money.
Half an hour later, while Xie Ruoni and her mother were waiting with her father for a CT scan, she looked at the document the doctor had given her about the course instructions for targeted drugs. Of course, it also included possible side effects, so the family members had to sign a hospital disclaimer.
.
"Retrogene therapy..."
During these days, Xie Ruoni has read a huge number of medical papers for her father, and has downloaded at least fifty English medical papers from CNKI. Even so, she still feels confused by this complicated medical terminology.
But, for her, time is the most important thing. It will take a long time for her to complete ten times of blood words, and she is not sure whether she will die in blood words in the future. And with this
With this medicine, my father's survival time can be greatly extended. The most optimistic possibility is that it can be extended until he can make a wish after completing ten times of blood words!
Of course, in the worst-case scenario, there is another way, which is to get a key to the apartment, and then let the father swear to enter the apartment. In this way, the apartment will automatically cure his cancer. But executing a blood letter in the apartment is not the same as suffering from cancer.
In the late stage, how big is the difference in survival rate? Even judging from the data recorded in blood, the survival rate of cancer patients is much higher than that of residents.
"Mom, Dad, let me go to the bathroom."
"Okay, you go."
Xie Ruoni quickly returned to the outpatient clinic.
At that time, there was no doctor in the doctor's clinic. After Xie Ruoni walked in, she asked: "Dr. Fang, I took a look and found that the current gene therapy is targeting the genes of European and American white people, so will it have any impact on the genes of yellow people?
Woolen cloth?"
"I'm not particularly sure. By the way, representatives from Geert Medical happened to come to our hospital today. Why don't you just go to them and ask for details. In any case, drugs can only be tested on mice. It's impossible.
It is impossible to conduct experiments on living people without any risk."
"Is their representative here?"
"Well, in the afternoon, several experts from our hospital will give a free public lecture in the lobby on the first floor. At the same time, their representatives will also publicly introduce this new targeted drug. Moreover, they will also be open to general patients to answer questions."
"okay, I get it!"
afternoon.
It takes two days to wait for the CT results, but the ultrasound results are pretty good so far.
After Xie Ruoni sent her parents home first, she waited in the lobby on the first floor of the hospital for the public lecture to start without telling them.
At the lecture table were several experts in digestive tract tumors from the hospital, and two foreigners were also present. At the lecture, the director of the oncology department of the hospital was the first to speak. And more than half of the people listening to the lecture were
Patient wearing hospital gown.
After several experts popularized some gene therapy cooperation with foreign countries, finally, a foreigner began to speak out.
He spoke fluent Chinese: "Everyone, my name is Gelmon Derek. This targeted drug developed by Geert Pharmaceuticals specifically for esophageal cancer has achieved very good results in the United States and Europe.
The therapeutic effect. The future of anti-cancer will definitely be the era of gene therapy..."
Afterwards, the question and answer session was opened.
Several patients raised their hands, and at this time, Edward named Xie Ruoni.
"Miss, come on."
"Mr. Derek," she stood up and asked, "I heard that this drug does not have enough treatment data on yellow people, right? Will the genetic differences between white people and yellow people affect the treatment effect?"
"Well... Regarding this question, I am not a doctor. I dare not give you an overly certain answer, otherwise we will be bad businessmen selling medicine. I can only say that the genetic differences you are worried about, at least based on the current research data,
It seems that it is unlikely to affect the efficacy."
"As for the treatment schedule..."
"I'm sorry, miss, one question from a patient..."
After the lecture, Xie Ruoni wanted to go to Gelmon for detailed questioning, but many patients gathered around him to ask questions. She had no choice but to look at the person next to him who looked like an assistant, and tried to walk up to him and asked: "Hello, sir..."
"
"I can speak Chinese." The white man who looked like an assistant spoke very fluent Chinese: "Miss, do you want to consult about targeted drugs?"
"Yes, you are also a representative of Geert Company, right?"
"I'm actually the investor's representative, and I'm mainly here to inspect Geert's operations in Asia. My name is Edward Inolivi."
"Hello, Ino..."
"You can call me Ed. However, I also have the specific research and development information on the new drug. You can ask me questions if you want."
Edward's Chinese is much more fluent than Gelmon's. If Xie Ruoni closed her eyes, she wouldn't be able to tell that this was a foreigner speaking Chinese.
"That……"
"But I have to leave the hospital now. I am employed by an investor, and he has to wait for me to report the information. Let's add a WeChat account. I have detailed Chinese information on the new drug and can send it to you."
"Okay, thank you!"
After adding WeChat, Edward left in a hurry.
After arriving outside the hospital and getting into a car, he picked up his mobile phone and passed the WeChat friend verification. Then, he immediately checked Xie Ruoni's circle of friends.
"Mr. Inolivi," the driver said to him at this time: "Wouldn't it be better if we kidnapped her parents directly?"
Edward looked at him coldly and said, "Shut up!"
"It's...Mr. Inolivi..."
Edward's head leaned back slightly. Even now, he can still clearly remember that he went to the morgue of the Los Angeles Police Department and looked at the bodies of his sister and brother-in-law.
He understands the pain of losing a loved one better than anyone else. Therefore, he does not want to threaten others with the safety of one's loved ones unless it is absolutely necessary.
"Let's drive. There are still many things to do next."