A diagnosis of kidney cancer does not mean that your are at the end of the road. There are innumerable stories of courage, innovation and determination that can inspire us. Fortunately, with modern technology and treatment techniques, there is hope for the vast majority of people who would not have been treated effectively till just a few years back.
One such story, is that of a surgical colleague of mine, a plastic surgeon in Iraq, who had came over with his father to me a few months ago. What follows is an extract from his post on http://www.facebook.com/roboticsurgerydelhi. You can read his post through a link at the end of this blog.
There is always light at the end of the tunnel….recovering well after surgery…..
“Everyone may face a hard time, and during that, you have to know who will be there with you to pass it.
My father Safaa Alhassany is 67 year old with past medical history of angina, hypertension, gout and DM. We discovered accidentally that he had a big tumour in the middle lobe of his left kidney and to make it complicated, the right one was shrinkage and with only 12% function!! Which meant a real ((disaster))!!
After a lot of consultations there in my country and here in India, there was no doubt that we are going to the dark side of our life..
There was no choice other than nephrectomy due to the size and site of the tumour.
Thanks Godness, following someone’s recommendation, I met Dr. Gagan Gautam and he was the only one offers a partial nephrectomy to save the kidney and get rid of the mass. Within a week time, he bravely took the plunge and operated on my dad and thankfully did it, saving about a half of the kidney after a super-major, long and difficult operation lasted more than 5 hours.After a month of this nightmare, I write my story just to say thank you to the one who saved our family Dr. Gagan Gautam and to let the others know that the hope is usually there but you have look for it carefully.
A big thank you to Dr. Gagan Gautam and his team.”
Dr. Hussein safaa
https://www.facebook.com/roboticsurgerydelhi/posts/632210403526822
Dr. Gagan Gautam is the Head of Urologic Oncology & Robotic Surgery at Max Institute of Cancer Care, New Delhi, India. He is India’s leading expert in robotic surgery for prostate, kidney and urinary bladder cancer treatment. To know more about him, click here, or visit his website http://www.roboticsurgerydelhi.com.
To read Dr. Gautam’s blog on robotic surgery for kidney cancer, please click here.
Dr Gagan Gautam 