Wu Mengchao: As long as I live a day, I will fight liver cancer for a day

55% of the world's liver cancer patients are in China, so we must rely on our own strength to study the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer. The
the village of Fuqing County, Fujian Province, is very lively, and many people come here with admiration. The village is the hometown of Wu Mengchao, the father of liver surgery in
, a professor at the Chinese University of Chinese Medicine and a professor at the Naval Medical University. Not long ago, more than two years to build the "Wu Mengchao
Museum" opened here.
The museum showcases the outstanding life of this medical person: Wu Mengchao was elected to China
in 1991, won the country's highest science and technology award in 2005, became the first medical doctor to receive this honor, as a soldier, he is a first-class British model, in 1996 was awarded the "model medical expert" honorary title ...
Recently, a reporter from Science and Technology Daily came to the Naval Medical University to get a close look at Wu Mengchao's legendary medical life.2014, reporters interviewed Wu Mengchao face-to-face. Interview that afternoon, after waiting for an hour and a half, the reporter finally met wu Mengchao, who was 92 years old at the time. He is not without the idea of time, his secretary secretly told reporters: "Wu Lao as soon as he arrived in the ward can not walk out, he is willing to stay there." "
, dozens of patients, it is difficult for him to put down the responsibility of treating and saving people.
August 2017, the week before his 95th birthday, Wu Mengchao also worked four hours on the operating table to cut a 10-centter-large medium liver leaf tumor. Now, although he has been gloriously retired, but he is still reluctant to put down the surgical knife, as always, check the room, as soon as free to study the latest academic materials. He said: "China's 'liver cancer big country' hat has not been thrown into the Pacific Ocean, I still want to continue to fight
!" Although
is a country with a high incidence of liver cancer, liver surgery was once considered a "no-go zone for life", and the success rate of related surgery is very low.
the early 1950s, China's liver cancer prevention and treatment field is still in a blank state, as a surgeon Wu Mengchao began to reclaim this "wasteland." A foreign expert saw Wu Meng super simple research environment, arrogantly said: "China's liver surgery to catch up with our level, at least 30 years!"
Wu Mengchao listened, angrily wrote down the "sleeping salary to taste the courage, to the world" 8 big words, determined to their own direction of struggle and the needs of the Party and the country closely linked.
there is no road in the "no-go zone". Originally used to breed experimental dogs, the shelter became Wu Mengchao's laboratory, all the experimental equipment is only a few worn-out tables and chairs and a few scissors.
After thousands of anatomical experiments, in 1957, the "three-person team" with Wu Mengchao as its core first put forward the theory of "five leaves and four segments" anatomy of liver structure, Chinese doctors have since entered the "no-go zone for life". In 1960, Wu Mengchao completed the first liver tumor removal surgery in China, achieving a breakthrough of zero in this field of Chinese surgery... In a few years, Wu Mengchao raised China's liver surgery to the world level.in liver surgery, Wu Mengchao, who stands only 1.62 meters tall, is a giant of the world.
Mengchao doesn't want to be just a knifeman. He used to say that he had a lifetime of knives, but that a knife could only prolong a patient's life, which is the same as a cup of water for China, which adds hundreds of thousands of new liver cancer patients each year. In order to solve the problem of liver cancer fundamentally, we must rely on basic research to find out the pathogenesis of liver cancer, find out the root cause of hepatitis's transformation to liver cancer, and do a good job in early prediction, early diagnosis and prevention, and then solve the problem of liver cancer that plagues the world in one go.
as early as the late 1950s, when the "three-person team" led by Wu Mengchao began to challenge liver cancer, they followed this line of thinking - scientific research from the clinical, and ultimately to the clinical. He established the first professional basic research laboratory for liver cancer in China, and in 1993 he established the largest liver cancer research base in the world, the Oriental Hepatocholine Surgery Hospital and Research Institute, to push liver cancer research to the molecular level and biological treatment field.
In 1997, when Wang Hongyanggang,
of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a molecular biologist oncology, returned to oriental hepatocholine surgery hospital from abroad, she suggested to Wu Mengchao that a new digestive medicine department must be built in the hospital, so that she could establish a base and transformation platform for basic research and clinical integration.
Mengchao said yes after listening. "55% of the world's liver cancer patients are in China, so we have to do our own research on liver cancer diagnosis and treatment." Wu Mengchao said.
" at that time, there is no so-called research hospital concept, my laboratory built in the hospital, and a new digestive department, need to resist pressure from all sides, but Wu Mengchao did not hesitate. Recalling the scene, Wang Hongyang's heart is full of gratitude.to
Chen Xiaoping, the 31-year-old Wu Mengchao can be said to be also a teacher and friend, and what he admires most is Wu Mengchao's pioneering spirit.
" in the academic field, the most emphasis is on pioneering. Chen Xiaoping told Science and Technology Daily, "Wu Lao translated China's first liver surgery teaching material " Introduction to Hepatocholiary Surgery", created a key theory and technical system of liver surgery, creatively put forward the anatomical theory of 'five leaf four segments', established a 'intermittent liver door blocking at room temperature' liver hemostectomy technology, the first successful implementation of a series of iconic surgery represented by the removal of the middle liver leaf, the establishment of China's liver surgery discipline system ... These methods and theories have been used to this day. "
Wu Mengchao is not satisfied.
he knows that china has nearly 400,000 new cases of liver cancer each year, and that surgery and scattered work across units are not enough to improve the cure rate.
more than 70 years of medical treatment, including more than 60 years of dealing with liver cancer. Now, my time is running out, I must give liver cancer research later people to build a platform to overcome liver cancer, only then we have hope! Wu Mengchao said.
" We recommend that the formation of a collaborative group to break the boundaries of departments, disciplines..." In the spring of 2006, wu Mengchao, who is 84 years old, joined six other
to submit a report to the relevant ministries of the country.
, Wu Mengchao has just won the country's highest science and technology award. Standing at the ap apes of his life, he did not stop, still concerned about the country's liver health cause.
report attracted attention, and on the last day of 2010, the National Hepato-Cancer Science Center was officially established in Shanghai. During this period, Wu Mengchao went to Beijing nearly a hundred times to coordinate communication. Once, he was sick just finished playing a little bit, and then went to Beijing to report. When he came out of the capital airport, he took a few steps to have a rest. The accompanying secretary broke down in tears: "Wu Lao really don't want to die."
As early as more than a decade ago, some people advised Wu Mengchao, you are more than 80 years old, have already become famous, should also enjoy qingfu, and then stand on the operating table, in case there is a flash, do not affect the reputation of a lifetime. Wu Mengchao smiled and said, "I am not a Wu Mengchao, reputation, what is that?" As long as I live a day, I will fight liver cancer for a day! "