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2026-07-17

Which muscles are used for breast reconstruction, and how are donor muscles selected?

For breast construction, we usually prefer the muscles of the rectus abdominis. Unless you are very strong and your latissimus dorsi muscles are well developed, you can use them. It also depends on the size of your opposite breast. If your opposite breast is small, you may be able to use the latissimus dorsi muscles. If the opposite breast is larger, then your latissimus dorsi muscles are not enough. Another thing is that there are some defects after the latissimus dorsi muscles are done. For example, after you remove the latissimus dorsi muscle, the side taken out is concave and deficient, so the shape of your back is not as perfect. However, most women have a lot of rectus abdominis muscle, which can be removed to give you a more perfect body shape.

2026-07-16

For stage III breast cancer, surgery or chemotherapy first? Does treatment order affect outcomes?

For stage III breast cancer, should surgery or chemotherapy come first? The success rate of these two treatments. If it's stage III, most of the patients will receive chemotherapy befre surgery. Doing chemotherapy first can shrink your tumor, reduces the tiny tumors in your blood, reduce the chance of recurrence, and help you to provide the opportunity to preserve your breasts. It can also know your sensitivity to drugs. If you can't control the tumor after chemotherapy, it means your prognosis is very poor. In this case, it's recommended to chemotherapy first and then surgery

2026-07-16

Do I need chemotherapy or radiotherapy after lymph node surgery?

Whether you need chemotherapy or radiotherapy after surgery, it depends on the state of your lymoh nodes after surgery. The size of the tumor and moleculur analysis. So it is difficult to tell you whether you need chemotherapy or radiotherapy right now. You need to give me all your reports,including the relevant parts I just mentioned, so that I can tell you whether you need chemotherapy or not. Some patients do not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy, but it depends on the patient's condition.

2024-08-03

I was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and have been treated in St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou for 6 years. Do I need to go back for reexamination? Or can I reexamine in Malaysia?

If your condition is stable for terminal stage, I will advise you to reexamine every 2-3 months. We need to know if you’re taking any endocrine therapy drugs. Since for the endocrine therapy drug, you may develop the situation of drug resistance. But you definitely need to reexamine.

You can do it in local hospital or send your medical reports and reexamine in our hospital. Latter will be better. Because we can compare it with previous treatment. Make a complete comparison to check your current status to see if your treatment needs to be proceeded or stopped completely. It’s very important.

2024-08-03

Is minimally invasive treatment suitable for pancreatic cancer?

It’s suitable for pancreatic cancer. The doctor need to check the stage of your pancreatic tumor, whether there are any metastasis in other organs. Because pancreatic cancer is actually the most difficult cancer to treat right now.

Then you need to check if it’s suitable for surgery. If you can’t undergo surgery, then you can undergo particle implantation. If you undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer, intraoperative complications will be high. The prognosis is not very good either. Some people can't even make it through for surgery.

As pancreatic surgery is the most difficult of all abdominal surgeries, it will cause many indications such as pancreatic fistula or the tumor may invade your blood vessel. Your local doctor may tell you that he can’t remove it and you need to undergo radiotherapy.

In terms of radiation dose of radiotherapy for pancreatic tumor, since there are nerves and intestines surrounding the pancreas. The radiation dose will be limited. It may up to 60GY to the largest extent. But in terms of particle implantation of pancreas. The radiation dose can reach 120GY, which can be twice as high as that of external radiotherapy so as to control your tumor effectively. Therefore, pancreatic cancer is a suitable indication for particle implantation.

And you can undergo Nanoknife treatment. As I just mentioned, since there are many blood vessles surrounding the pancreas, you may not be able to endure surgery. Nanoknife is a kind of irreversible electroporation technology. It can protect the blood vessle and nerves of the surroundings, which can be an alternative choice for you.

2024-07-31

Minimally invasive treatment duration and hospitalization period

In St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, how long is the duration of minimally invasive surgery and how long does the patients need to stay in hospital? A minimally invasive surgery may last for 40 minutes to one hour. If you just need to do a minimally invasive surgery, like our patient in domestic, they could be discharged after observing for 2 or 3 days. But for patients coming from abroad, maybe some of them will stay for a few more days.