Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1180 - 927: Why Aren’t You Eating?

Chapter 1180: Chapter 927: Why Aren’t You Eating?

Aside from CAR-T cell therapy and chemotherapy, there is a new method to treat diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: Switzerland’s Roche Pharmaceuticals’ Gazyva monoclonal antibody. The total cost of this treatment is about half of that of CAR-T cell therapy, roughly between 600,000 to 1,000,000 RMB, and the treatment effect is also very good.

It is evident that currently, the pharmaceutical industry is still dominated by Western countries. The technological barriers established by these pharmaceutical giants over a century are difficult to overcome. In fact, their greatest technological barrier is their research databases which store data from all scientific experiments over the past hundred years. A small portion of this data comes from successful experiments, but the majority comes from failed experiments, and it is the data from these failed experiments that constitute the companies’ real trade secrets and hold greater long-term value than successful experiments.

Why?

Because these data represent dead ends that pharmaceutical giants have already determined through trial and error to be the wrong directions to take. These are the most valuable because, with this data, they won’t repeat the same mistakes.

Other companies that come later lack massive volumes of trial-and-error data. The experimental routes they painstakingly devise often turn out to be those already proven wrong, but these companies usually don’t know this. Thus, they invest money, manpower, and time in vain, only to realize a decade later that they were wrong, effectively retracing the mistakes of the bigger companies.

As a result, newcomers can never catch up with these pharmaceutical giants. Therefore, in the pharmaceutical industry, most companies are very stable and firmly hold the industry’s top positions.

Unless a company suddenly makes a breakthrough supported by a new theory, which is very rare.

Moreover, even if such companies exist, most of them are controlled through investments by the pharmaceutical giants because they know better than anyone else what is right and wrong. Thus, they cast a wide net with their substantial funds.

Yang Ping’s new method is very simple and only requires one week. Qualified T lymphocytes are placed in sterile bottles and delivered to the ward at Sanbo Hospital.

These T lymphocytes, tasked with destroying tumor cells, are infused into Li Ruizhong’s bloodstream through his blood vessels. For safety, all kinds of rescue equipment are placed in Li Ruizhong’s ward, and Yang Ping, along with the doctor, personally stays in the ward.

Although this technology is part of Yang Ping’s reserve techniques, this is the first time it is being used on a patient in reality. Human life is paramount, so utmost caution is essential.

After all the modified T lymphocytes were infused into Li Ruizhong’s body, Li Ruizhong, trusting in Professor Zhang, wasn’t nervous at all. He treated it as if he were receiving an infusion of saline solution, chatting with the doctors while the infusion took place.

After a whole bottle of T lymphocytes was infused, Li Ruizhong experienced no adverse reactions. It was just like a regular infusion.

Li Ruizhong found it hard to believe that such a small bottle, costing 1.2 million RMB on the market, would take him so many years of welding to afford. Even if he earned 10,000 RMB a month, he’d have to work ten years without eating or sleeping, continuously welding every day to afford just this one bottle. This was the economic value of knowledge.

Back when he was a student, he didn’t take his studies seriously and didn’t care about his academic performance. Now, looking back, he realized how ignorant he was. Given another chance, he would definitely study hard.

"Is it all done?"

As the nurse prepared to remove the IV, Li Ruizhong stared at the bottle, as if a tiny bit hadn’t been infused yet.

"It’s all done!"

The nurse said.

Li Ruizhong looked at the bottle and then at the tubing, it indeed was done. With something worth 1.2 million, even leaving a little bit might mean thousands or tens of thousands, it couldn’t be wasted.

"How do you dispose of this bottle?"

"Recyclable medical waste."

"Can I keep the bottle?" Li Ruizhong asked the nurse for the bottle that contained the T lymphocytes.

The nurse asked confusingly, "What do you want the bottle for? We have to dispose of it properly; we can’t give it to you."

"If you can’t give me the bottle, can you let me put some water in it to rinse it out?" "The rinse water can stay with me, right?"

Li Ruizhong pleaded, thinking there must still be some residue of the drug inside. Rinsing it with water, there would surely be some of the drug in the rinse water, which he could drink without wasting it.

"You want the rinse water?"

The nurse didn’t understand what he meant.

Li Ruizhong honestly said, "A bottle costs 1.2 million RMB, it would be a pity to waste even a drop. If I rinse it out, can you save the rinse water for me to drink?"

The nurse almost burst out laughing, "Drinking it won’t be of any use, don’t worry, it has all been infused into your body."

The nurse took the bottle and left, leaving behind Li Ruizhong’s regretful gaze.

Seeing that Li Ruizhong had no reactions, everyone felt relieved. Other doctors weren’t sure, but Yang Ping was confident; this technology had been validated by a large number of experimental subjects in the System Laboratory.

Although the system rules state that the experimental subjects are no different from real humans, Yang Ping was still very cautious, and all the necessary real-world procedures had to be followed.

Next, daily monitoring of the decrease in tumor cells in Li Ruizhong’s body would commence. Not only was Li Ruizhong undergoing treatment, but he was also the first experimental volunteer.

For safety, Li Ruizhong would continue to stay in the hospital, so if there happened to be any special incidents during the proliferation and tumor-killing process of the T lymphocytes in his body, immediate action could be taken to deal with it. If he were at home and an emergency occurred, it wouldn’t be discovered in time, let alone promptly dealt with.

As long as it could cure his illness, Li Ruizhong was willing to stay in the hospital as long as necessary. He cooperated fully with the doctors. Since things had come to this point, the small amount of money he’d lose from not working didn’t seem so important. Health was more important than money, Li Ruizhong understood that. Besides, there was a small store at home, the income of which could maintain the basic living expenses.

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