Patients themselves are textbooks. Their emotional responses, social and cultural backgrounds, medical histories and treatments they have undertaken all give us instruction. Modern medicine is a science, but the pattern of diagnosis and treatment for patients is a super-science. In other words, diagnosis and treatment requires sociology; we cannot ignore the influence of human factors and cultural backgrounds of patients. We also cannot isolate the relationship between the disease and the patient.
How can cancer patients survive? Doctors should study not only the disease but also the patient. The former President of Malaysian Guo Lin Qigong, Mr. Luo Yunqi told me that his first wife suffered from colon cancer and she was in dreadful pain when she died. However many patients he taught can live well even if cancer still remains inside the body without feeling significant pain. He said, “If the patient’s hand is cold, the condition is certainly not good, but if it is hot, the prognosis is usually good.” Exercise can heat up patient’s hands (Figure 44). Mr. Luo is not a doctor, but his experience is very instructive.
I will introduce two patients I have interviewed to illustrate how their survival experience is a type of learning for me to share. In the following two photographs (Figure 45), guess who the patient is? The lady in the middle of the left photo and the lady on the left side of the right photo are lung cancer patients. They are patients I encountered in the Beijing Jingmeng Stem Cell Research Center. Both of them suffered from stage III nonsmall cell lung cancer; they had pleural metastasis that could not be surgically excised. They had received chemotherapy but it failed; they had no other choice but to accept immunotherapy, remarkably they recovered. The first patient has slight intrahepatic metastasis; the second has not yet had any apparent relapse. They have survived for more than three years.
Since life is short, we must spend every day joyously. These two patients live happily, one is working in the city, and the other one is a farmer in Hebei Province. They keep working every day, taking oral supplements (such as vitamins) and carrying on with periodic reviews. The reviews include the detection of immune cells and function and the maintenance of the immune system through various methods such as immune cell infusion.