[Caso raro medico]22-year-old filial son donated 70% of his liver to help mother with end-stage rectal cancer find her life-Hong Kong Economic Times- TOPick – Health- Health Information

End-stage bowel cancer patients have more hope! A few days ago, a Singaporean mother suffering from terminal rectal cancer was saved by her son’s liver donation and returned to life, the first case in Southeast Asia.

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According to extensive foreign media reports, in October 2020, mother Lin Yiming went to the hospital for an examination due to sudden diarrhea and severe abdominal pain, resulting in end-stage colorectal cancer and cancer cells diagnosed. they had expanded to the liver. According to statistics, about 40% of patients with advanced colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases, and the five-year survival rate is less than 20%.

Before the diagnosis, Mother Lin worked everywhere and raised her son alone.

I didn’t expect (the condition) to be that serious. That day I went to get the test results by myself, and when I heard the bad news, I couldn’t help but cry because my son was still young.

Respectful 22-year-old son donates liver to save his sick mother

With standard therapy, patients with advanced bowel cancer can undergo surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy; if unresectable, liver transplantation can be used. In some Western countries, a two-year survival rate of 83% has been achieved. He Jingshan, a medical consultant in the Department of Oncology and Hematology at the National University Cancer Center, revealed that after about a year of chemotherapy, Lin’s condition responded well, so he suggested considering changing the liver. to remove the cancer, or you may have a better chance of recovery.

After the hospital determined that Mother Lin met the aforementioned criteria for liver transplantation, they immediately matched her with her 22-year-old son Wu Junle. The son has successfully become the mother’s living liver donor and will donate 60-70% of her liver. On July 28 this year, with the assistance of over 50 health workers, the two mothers and two children successfully completed the liver transplant operation and were discharged from the hospital 7 days after the operation.

Creation of medical breakthroughs

A patient with end-stage rectal cancer was treated with a liver transplant, something never before done in all of Southeast Asia. Lim’s case is a first in Singapore and even Southeast Asia, demonstrating that patients with end-stage rectal cancer can hopefully be cured of cancer through liver transplantation in the future. After Lin’s liver transplant operation, all of the cancer cells were removed. In an interview, she happily stated:

I asked the doctor how long I could live and he said he could live long, but some medicines have to be taken all the time. I said that as long as I live, taking medicine is a small problem. This is my life.

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