Devoted son dedicates his life to cancer battle
By Jane Chen |
July 6, 2010, Tuesday
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LI Hanzheng, 22, who helped his mother in her fight against cancer three times over 11 years, is going to the United States to further his medical studies - and help more women like her.
Li has just graduated from Zhongshan University's medical school and is now going to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas with a full scholarship, yesterday's Guangzhou Daily reported.
Li's mother Han Qi was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 when Li was a grade-six pupil. An operation was successful, but later she was diagnosed with liver cancer.
Doctors told her she only had two years to live and only 1.75 percent of patients in her situation had survived five years.
Han said she was determined to strive for survival because she would not have her only son lose his mother's care at such a young age.
She overcame the liver cancer but in early 2005 she was diagnosed with a third cancer - this time of the thyroid.
Li was studying at a boarding school but phoned his mother every day, encouraging her to fight the disease.
The calls, which Li described as a "speaking therapy," have continued since then, even when Li was on a three-month exchange program early last year at the Harvard Medical School in the US, Han told the newspaper.
Li was a student at Zhongshan University's Life Science School and he had focused his major on medical and life sciences to cure his mother, he told the newspaper. Now he wanted to further his studies to help more mothers win their battles against cancer.
Li has just graduated from Zhongshan University's medical school and is now going to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas with a full scholarship, yesterday's Guangzhou Daily reported.
Li's mother Han Qi was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 when Li was a grade-six pupil. An operation was successful, but later she was diagnosed with liver cancer.
Doctors told her she only had two years to live and only 1.75 percent of patients in her situation had survived five years.
Han said she was determined to strive for survival because she would not have her only son lose his mother's care at such a young age.
She overcame the liver cancer but in early 2005 she was diagnosed with a third cancer - this time of the thyroid.
Li was studying at a boarding school but phoned his mother every day, encouraging her to fight the disease.
The calls, which Li described as a "speaking therapy," have continued since then, even when Li was on a three-month exchange program early last year at the Harvard Medical School in the US, Han told the newspaper.
Li was a student at Zhongshan University's Life Science School and he had focused his major on medical and life sciences to cure his mother, he told the newspaper. Now he wanted to further his studies to help more mothers win their battles against cancer.
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