Xu Kecheng:

During the Spring Festival holiday this year, I was at home in Shanghai. I came across a book called "Patients Without Borders", written by a reporter from Phoenix TV. He suffered from a rare disease - adrenocortical carcinoma. He underwent surgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and the disease recurred a year later. He went to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States, which is considered the best cancer hospital in the world. After repeated chemotherapy and many near-death risks, he was lucky to live to his eighth year. The cost was several million US dollars. As I read, I thought about why the author wrote the book? At this moment, a blessing came from my mobile phone: "... Cao XX wishes you a happy new year in Los Angeles..." What a coincidence! Is this "quantum entanglement"? The WeChat user, Mr. Cao, is also a patient with adrenocortical carcinoma. He went to the United States for vacation. When I thought of this, I was secretly happy for him: Then he has lived happily for 8 years. I remember it was February 2016. I was in the outpatient clinic when a patient suddenly came and handed me a letter. It was written by my student, Shen Bo, who is a professor at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. It turned out that this patient was from my hometown. He had adrenocortical carcinoma 2 years ago and underwent surgery in Shanghai. The tumor recurred 15 months later. He went to the United States and found Shen Bo, who used to be his neighbor. Shen Bo said: America can't do anything for you, go back to China to find my teacher. So he found me half-believingly. At that time, he had multiple metastatic tumors in his abdominal cavity, some as big as a fist. We performed ablation treatment for him, and then gave him compound immunotherapy for 2 years. He did not experience much pain, as he said, "coexisting happily with cancer."

Li Dinggang:

The key to seeing a doctor is to find a good treatment method and a good doctor who implements this method. The patient introduced by Professor Xu and the journalist who was treated in the United States have the same disease and similar condition. It is self-evident which one has better "total value" of treatment.

(To be continued)