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【我的中国梦】癌症患者的重生之梦
【My China Dream】Tale of a true survivor

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【我的中国梦】癌症患者的重生之梦
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Wang Wei was close to death in 2008, but thanks to a chance encounter with a top doctor, the 26-year-old is now living a life she never dared hope possible. Liu Zhihua reports.

Wang Wei, 26, a nurse with China Meitan General Hospital in Beijing, is a regular guest on television.

Onscreen, she wears a long, thick ponytail and a big smile. Her eyes sparkle with vitality as she tells the audience her life story.

No one would suspect that she was once a cancer patient with little chance of survival.

In 2008, when she appeared on television for the first time, she was at the end stage of thyroid cancer. Doctors said she did not have long to live.

"I was waiting for death. But now, I'm as healthy as anyone else, and doctors say I can have babies if I want," Wang says. "It is like a dream."

Born in Yichun, Heilongjiang province, in 1987, Wang had a happy childhood growing up in an average urban family with three children.

But misfortune struck in 1995 when Wang discovered a pea-sized lump on her neck. Her parents took her to hospital only to be told she had thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer originates in the thyroid gland, and is a mild cancer that progresses relatively slowly.

But in the 1990s, treatment of the cancer in China relied largely on removal of the cancer tissues and even the whole thyroid gland. As a young child, Wang needed to keep her thyroid gland so her body would continue to grow.

Wang was 8 years old when the cancer was diagnosed. All she remembers is that she had an operation on her neck not long after the hospital visit and started to take all kinds of medicines.

Her parents didn't tell her what disease she had, and her life continued as usual.

What she did not know was that she didn't have health insurance. All the treatment and medicine she received were paid for out of her families' pockets. Her parents soon spent all their savings, and started borrowing money from relatives.

To make matters worse, in 1997, both of her parents lost their jobs.

To provide for three children and to make ends meet, her parents did all kinds of work, including picking up litter to sell, farming pigs and planting rice.

As the family became poorer and poorer, Wang started to become suspicious about her disease. "I felt different from the rest of the children, because I had to take a lot of medicines all the time," Wang says.

"And all the medicines I took had no labels. My parents had torn them off. They also avoided the topic of cancer, even when watching television."

She was always given the best food, such as meat and eggs, while her parents and sisters didn't eat any meat for months.

In 1998, Wang finally learned the truth. When another lump appeared on her neck, Wang's father told her that she had cancer, assuring her that all was in control and she would be cured.

She also discovered the medication she took were anti-cancer pills, substitute thyroid function medication and nutritional supplements.

At age 16, a checkup showed the cancer had spread, with cancer cells appearing in other parts of the body.

Her parents sold their apartment and took her to the best hospitals in Beijing.

She coughed blood constantly, and her neck was so swollen that she wore scarf or special clothes to hide it from curious eyes.

She underwent painful chemotherapy, which made her throw up and lose all her hair.

"I thought about death, so that I wouldn't cause further pain to my parents and my family," Wang says. "But my parents had done so much for me, and I couldn't just die."

To her family, she was a sweet daughter; to her teachers, an A-plus student who had studied hard despite the cancer; to her doctors, she was an optimistic patient who had postponed death miraculously time and time again.

But no one knew Wang cried at night, in fear of death.

During the Spring Festival dinner in 2008, Wang started to cough blood. The family fell silent. The television was on, broadcasting the happiness of others.

Wang then made a decision, which turned out to be a turning point in her life.

"I decided to write to my favorite television program Xingguang Dadao (Star Way, a talent show for ordinary people) to ask for a chance to sing on their stage," Wang says.

"I wanted to thank my parents for what they had done for me, and wanted to leave something for them to remember me by after I die."

She soon heard from the show's production team, who immediately arranged for her to sing on the show.

Wang appeared on television and the program's host told the story of her struggle with cancer, the devotion of her family and how she wanted to donate her body for medical study and organ transplants.

One viewer happened to be Wang Mingxiao, president of China Meitan General Hospital. He rarely watched television, but happened to tune in and was deeply moved by Wang's story.

The hospital president called the show's production team, offering free treatment to the girl. Viewers across the country also called and donated money to the family.

The hospital organized its best medical team and performed an operation on Wang Wei in April 2008 to remove the original cancer tissues, which lasted more than six hours. An average thyroid cancer removal operation lasts about two hours.

"She had an operation before, which made a second operation a great challenge. But without a new operation, she would have died," Wang Mingxiao says.

Luck was on Wang Wei's side this time. The operation was successful, and she soon started recovering.

As she recovered, the hospital president learned she used to be a top student in a key high school and decided to help her continue her studies. He used his connections and enrolled her in a nursing school in Heilongjiang province.

She graduated last year and became a nurse in the hospital.

Wang is popular with both colleagues and patients.

"She always smiles, and treats patients with kindness because she was once a patient and can empathize with them," says Wang Mingxiao.

Earlier this year, a regular checkup indicated that all the cancer cells in her body had disappeared, and her hair has become long and thick.

"I never dreamed I would live like I live now, being a medical staff member in a great hospital and being needed," Wang says.

"I just want to tell people to never let go of hope and everything will be good."

By Liu Zhihua ( China Daily )

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26岁的王威是北京煤炭总医院的一名护士,最近一段时间,她常常出现在电视中。

镜头前,她穿长裙,梳着长长的马尾辫,神采飞扬,没有人想到她曾经是濒临死亡的癌症患者。

2008年,王威第一次出现在电视上,本以为将要走到生命尽头,却意外获得一线生机。

那是在《星光大道》的节目里,她演唱了一首歌,讲了自己的故事,感动了很多人,包括改变了她人生的北京煤炭总医院的院长王明晓。

“那时候我处于等死的状态,没想到现在病全好了,”王威说。

“医生说我现在血液里一点癌细胞都没有,就算是结婚生孩子都没有问题。”

1997年王威出生在黑龙江伊春一个平凡的五口之家,父母均为普通职工,有两个姐姐。童年的王威很幸福,是一家人的掌上明珠。

1995年,不幸降临,脖子上一个豌豆粒大小的肿块,让王威被诊断为甲状腺癌。

甲状腺癌是相对温和的癌症,进展较慢,但是如果治疗不当,会危及生命。那时候中国医院对甲状腺癌的治疗主要依靠手术切除癌变组织以及放疗、化疗。

但是王威当时只有8岁,医生做手术时必须尽量保留甲状腺。手术之后,王威需要服用药物抗癌、替代甲状腺功能和补充营养。

因为她没有医保,所有治疗都需要自费。很快,父母就用完多年积蓄。然而,祸不单行,两年后,王威父母先后下岗。

为了给王威筹钱治病,王威的父母捡垃圾、养猪、种水稻,做了很多从来没做过的重活、累活,整个家庭的经济状况每况愈下。

即使这样,王威家人也没有放弃对她的治疗、给她提供足够的营养。即使全家只有一块肉,也都给她吃。

王威一直不知道自己得了癌症,因为父母总是把药的外包装和说明书藏起来。

在王威的再三追问下,十一、二岁时,父母终于告诉她真相,并且让她放心,她的病一定可以治好。

“我很害怕,晚上常常躲在被子里哭,但是从来不敢让爸妈和姐姐发现,怕他们伤心,”王威说。

“我想过一死了之,不再拖累他们,但是觉得这样对不起他们。”

除了治病之外,王威坚持像其他孩子一样上学,她很努力,从小成绩名列前茅。

2003年王威16岁的时候,癌细胞扩散到全身,病情加重。

她的父母将房子卖了,给她筹钱到北京的大医院治病,可医生说她最多再活三到六个月。父母带着她多方求治,虽然奇迹再次出现,王威活下来了,但高二时病情太过严重,不得不休学。那时候的王威,脖子肿大,时常吐血,却不敢让家人发现。

到2008年除夕夜,王威决定给她最喜爱的《星光大道》节目组写信,希望在离开这个世界前能在星光大道舞台上唱一首歌,一来满足自己的愿望,二来也给父母留下念想。她还打算将自己捐赠自己的遗体。

不久,王威站在了星光大道的舞台上,评委读了她的来信,介绍了她的情况。

也许是天意,在节目播出的时候,很少看电视的煤炭总医院王明晓院长偶然打开电视,看到了王威,听到了她的故事,非常受感动,决定伸出援助之手,给王威提供免费治疗。

“她还很年轻,不应该这么早就离开这个世界,”王院长说。

2008年4月底,煤炭总医院集结全医院最好的医疗资源为王威做了手术。手术进行了6个多小时,而一般的甲状腺癌手术只有两个多小时。

“王威以前做过甲状腺癌手术,再次做手术风险很大,”王院长说。

“但是,不做手术她肯定活不了,做了手术至少还有希望。”

这一次幸运之神终于眷顾了王威,手术很成功,她当天夜里就苏醒了。此后,她按照医生指导服用放疗药物,身体日渐恢复,进入黑龙江护理学院学习。

去年王威顺利毕业,成为煤炭医院的一名护士。今年,血液检查显示,她血液中已经没有癌细胞了。

“我从没想过我会成为护士,没想到我也可以照顾病人,”王威说。

“我特别想告诉大家,不管什么时候都不要放弃希望,一切都会好起来。也许有些疾病,比如癌症,现在还不能很好的治疗,但谁知道呢?或许再过一段时间就又更好的治疗办法了,就像我一样。”

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