Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1141 - 911 Thanks Big Brother for Lending a Hand

Chapter 1141: Chapter 911 Thanks Big Brother for Lending a Hand

The doctors gathered around the lightbox analyzing Sisi’s condition are all world-class physicians.

However, at this moment, the resurgence and metastasis of Sisi’s tumor had plunged everyone into silence, for tumors are the formidable enemy of human medicine.

Song Zimo took a deep breath and said, "It seems we need to carry out a full body examination to see whether there is metastasis in the head or other parts. If there is metastasis in the head, that would be troublesome."

The head is different from the abdomen, which lacks a bony ’shield’ and can be treated with Gamma Knife’s focused ultrasound. The head is protected by the skull, and ultrasound cannot penetrate the bone, let alone the head. Even treating lung tumors in the chest with the Gamma Knife, as Yang Ping did for Sisi, is a clever workaround, allowing the ultrasound to enter the thoracic cavity through the intercostal spaces.

"Let’s proceed with the examination, and once it is complete, we’ll determine the treatment plan," Yang Ping said, refraining from making any treatment suggestions for the time being.

Osteosarcoma has no effective targeted drugs, and although many are in use, none are showing good results.

Such as epidermal growth factor receptor blockers, specific cell marker monoclonal antibodies, certain small molecule compounds, anti-tumor angiogenesis inhibitors, and so on—there are drugs used for osteosarcoma, but none shows significant effects.

The use of the Gamma Knife is also not unlimited. Its focused ultrasound essentially uses thermal energy to kill tumor cells, which can easily cause burns to normal tissue and is not good at targeting the specific lesion.

Previously, when Director Duan Xiaoming used the Gamma Knife for uterine fibroids, the results were not good, with complications occurring frequently, either incomplete treatment of the fibroids or thermal injury to adjacent tissues.

Director Duan gradually became an expert in using the Gamma Knife, especially for treating uterine fibroids, only after learning some clever techniques from Yang Ping.

"I am researching a new type of targeted drug; its mechanism is completely different from previous targeted drugs, but it only has some effect on liver cancer and unfortunately does not work on osteosarcoma," Professor Manstein lamented over this conundrum.

He was indeed studying a brand-new targeted drug, and although it was also called a targeted drug, its mechanism completely differed from current ones.

Inspired by the hepatitis B virus’s preference for stem cells, Professor Manstein modified the virus to specifically target liver cancer cells and be harmless to liver cells. By using this modified virus as a carrier to deliver cancer-killing drugs directly to liver cancer cells, he managed to achieve good results in animal experiments.

Yang Ping was considering whether it was time to move his K factor into clinical trials ahead of schedule. Since these trials would be initially based on Sisi’s tumor cells, starting with her for human trials seemed logical.

However, all current experiments have been in vitro. Yang Ping planned to simplify the experimental procedure by directly conducting human trials in the System Space Laboratory to see if the K factor was effective and to assess any potential harm to the human body.

Science is rigorous, from the discovery of new medical mechanisms to the design of drugs utilizing these mechanisms; it is a long process that can take decades and might fail at any point.

Why are the new drugs from international pharmaceutical giants so expensive? Because developing a new drug requires huge investments of human, financial, and temporal resources, and it could all end up being for nothing. Considering the current success rates of drug development, thousands or even tens of thousands of experimental drugs might yield only one that successfully enters clinical use.

Whether acknowledged or not, people inevitably seek profit. Without the incentive of substantial profits, no pharmaceutical company would conduct new drug research. If everyone were to duplicate existing formulas, who would be the innovator? Eventually, there would be no one.

Tang Shun’s laboratory has already started researching tumor apoptosis and is making rapid progress, mainly because the experimental plan was a successful version that Yang Ping had refined through extensive trial and error. It would be hard not to succeed.

The trial and error was left to the System Space Laboratory, so the protocol brought to the tangible laboratory was already error-free, which is why Tang Shun always considered Yang Ping a genius.

In scientific research, avoiding detours is something only Professor Yang can achieve worldwide.

After reviewing Sisi’s examination results, Song Zimo took Professor Manstein and August for a tour of the laboratory. Director Zhou of the Department of Science and Education was so excited to learn that Nobel Prize laureate Professor Manstein had arrived at Sanbo Hospital that he trembled with the teacup in his hand.

It wasn’t just Sanbo Hospital; few top hospitals across the country could boast a visit from a Nobel Prize laureate. Eager to confirm this, Director Zhou went alone to gather intel.

At the moment, Professor Manstein was touring the Stem Cell Laboratory, with Director Zhou discreetly tailing the group. Since all foreigners looked more or less the same to him, and he didn’t recognize Professor Manstein, he could only rely on online photos to make a rough identification, but even that didn’t help much.

He pulled Song Zimo aside, to Song Zimo’s surprise, as he hadn’t even realized when Director Zhou had joined their group.

"I heard that Nobel Prize winner Professor Manstein has come to our hospital?"

Song Zimo covertly pointed and said, "That’s him, what about it?"

"Why didn’t you tell us in advance? We could have arranged the reception work ahead of time," Director Zhou said somewhat irritated.

Song Zimo replied, "He’s just our friend, visiting us in a private capacity for fun. We can handle it privately."