Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1177 - 926: Do You Dare to Try Charging Up?

Chapter 1177: Chapter 926: Do You Dare to Try Charging Up?

Li Ruizhong called his wife at home to ask about the kids’ studies and lied that it was nothing serious, just ordinary arthritis, requiring a few days of hospital treatment.

His wife instructed him to make sure he got well and not to worry about the family.

Li Ruizhong worked in a science and technology park that hosted many enterprises, and he had been working for over ten years in one of the factories there. He was a longstanding employee, and his two children went to private schools nearby—one in elementary and the other in kindergarten.

To supplement the family income, he rented a small shop next to the park where his wife usually tended the store, selling mineral water, ice cream, milk, drinks, snacks, etc., and also using the shop as a parcel collection point. Even though the income wasn’t high, it helped cover some living expenses. After all, working away from home, finding ways to increase income was essential, as the whole family relied on the money.

Facing such circumstances, Li Ruizhong had to silently bear the burden alone—what else could he do, being the pillar of the family? Thankfully, he came across a good doctor; Professor Zhang became his faithful support in treatment.

After reviewing Li Ruizhong’s medical records, Yang Ping saw that Li Ruizhong’s condition was very serious. The effect of chemotherapy was uncertain, and cellular therapy would have been the best option. Unfortunately, for an ordinary worker, coming up with 1.2 million was simply out of the question.

"What can we do?" asked Song Zimo.

For surgeons accustomed to performing operations every day, dealing with a patient who needed medical treatment was somewhat out of their element.

Indeed, whether it’s internal medicine or surgery, both are means to the same end: to alleviate the sufferings caused by diseases and restore the patients’ health.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had limited treatment choices: either chemotherapy and radiotherapy or CAR-T cells. Other treatments were not very useful.

"If only---if his financial situation---were better, we could give him---CAR-T cell therapy, which I think would solve the problem with one shot," Xu Zhiliang couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful.

Song Zimo thought that the CAR-T cells Xu Zhiliang mentioned were utterly impractical: "Let’s go with chemotherapy, rituximab plus CHOP protocol."

The group discussed back and forth, finally turning their eyes to Yang Ping.

After a moment of reflection, Yang Ping said, "Let’s do the cell therapy."

The Surgical Research Institute had to have its unique features, striving to leverage its research strengths rather than simply providing patients with routine treatments.

"120,000 yuan, plus other various costs, amounts to almost 2 million," Song Zimo reminded Yang Ping that this was an ordinary worker, wondering how he could afford such an expensive treatment.

Yang Ping nodded, acknowledging he was aware of the situation, then said, "We can do it in-house at our Stem Cell Laboratory, produce the cell therapy ourselves, and we don’t need to use the existing patented technology. Collection, purification, and expansion of T lymphocytes can be done in our own lab, and for the modification of cells, we can have Nandu Medical University’s Genetics Laboratory help with that, which won’t cost much."

"No patented technology? Bypassing them?"

Song Zimo was puzzled, knowing that circumventing someone else’s patents was virtually impossible.

"Yes, bypass it!" Yang Ping affirmed confidently.

Everyone was extremely surprised. This signified that Professor Yang had his own methods, distinct from the current mainstream cell therapies. Professor Yang always had an element of surprise.

In reality, all these cell therapies were by-products from Yang Ping’s experiments in the System Space. With a plethora of experiments and trial-and-error, some failed experiments didn’t meet the experimental goals but resulted in unexpected new discoveries. New cellular therapies were such by-products. Presently, Yang Ping was also exploring tumor cell apoptosis, another result of trial-and-error that was not suitable for non-Hodgkin lymphoma but fit osteosarcomas.

"Can we really do it?"

Professor Zhang had remained silent until now. Listening to the young colleagues’ conversation made him feel left behind by the times; the place where he worked every day was capable of such advanced procedures.

"Our Stem Cell Laboratory can even discover spatial orientation genes, so for us, this task is simple. Moreover, my method is quick and straightforward, and it doesn’t have high requirements. As long as we maintain sterile conditions well, our laboratory’s sterile hardware fully meets the standards," Yang Ping stated confidently.

"This technique is nothing more than re-engineering the patients’ T lymphocytes, then expanding these modified cells before reintroducing them into the body. Once the modified T lymphocytes encounter specific antigens on tumor cells, they continue to expand inside the body and precisely kill the tumor cells. And since we have the credentials in this field, as long as patients are willing to participate in the experiment, we can use cell therapy. My method is simpler and more cost-effective."

No sooner said than done, Yang Ping led everyone to the Stem Cell Laboratory to explore how to use the lab’s hardware to modify T lymphocytes.

Li Yingtong didn’t leave; she spent these few days familiarizing herself with the laboratory environment and workflow, and she would be leaving for the United States after that. She had to settle some matters there before returning to China to start her formal job.

When she saw Yang Ping and his group coming to the lab in full force, hearing that they were there to perform cell therapy for a patient, she was astonished.

As a skilled doctoral graduate in the field of stem cells, Li Yingtong knew about the complexities of CAR-T cell therapy. This wasn’t something one lab could accomplish alone, so she was quite curious about how Yang Ping was going to manage this project.

As the experiments progressed, to Tang Shun, Yang Ping was no longer human but a god, so whatever Yang Ping said, Tang Shun would believe. Influenced by Yang Ping, he, too, developed an unmatched confidence, becoming more imaginative in scientific thought than before, and more daring in his approaches.

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