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The throat was all broken, he secretly cried in the bath, 33 times of electrotherapy, and he had to be anesthetic when he ate.
spent nearly NT$10 million on treatment, what kind of illness did it say: It's really too bitter.
A generation of famous generals
The famous generals of the times, the famous "Lin Li War", Lin Dan and Li Zongwei are the embodiment of "both Shengyu and He Shengliang". The world points of the fault, the strength of the fault, the "Lin Li War" has finally become a generation of memory.
Lee Chong Wei is a native of Malaysia and is known as the first brother of Malaysia because of his outstanding achievements.
The ancestral home is Fujian, and when the grandparents chose to go south for a livelihood and took root in Malaysia since then, no one could have imagined that the boy who was small and always did not grow became a national badminton player.
Contacted badminton at the age of 11, from an amateur player to a professional badminton school, from the state team to the national team, Lee Chong Wei showed his coach in 6 years that he was "talented" in the field of badminton after all.
In 06, he first became the world's No. 1 seat, and Lee Chong Wei's name naturally began to make the outside world curious.
In 2010, he became the first player in history to achieve three consecutive championships in the World Badminton Federation Finals.
Both Shengyu and He Shengliang, from 2004 to 2018, 40 wonderful performances, 14 years of meeting opponents, Lin Dan has an absolute advantage of 28 wins and 12 losses, and the two are between "winning and losing", becoming the opponents who have fought the most in each other's careers.
It can be said that the two with fault strength have shown the performance of the peak level of badminton for 14 years, and the fierce confrontation between the two has also become a "must-have program" for badminton fans.
However, just after the 40th "Lin Li War", looking forward to the two fighting again, Li Zongwei fell ill.
"Nasopharyngeal carcinoma".
In September 2018, Li Zongwei was diagnosed, and this nasopharyngeal cancer was far more serious than Li Zongwei imagined, and he chose to go from Malaysia to China for treatment, which became Li Zongwei's "must".
With almost all his throat broken, he had to take anesthetics to eat, the difficulty of eating, and the careful care of his wife, Li Zongwei's heart was full of distress for his wife and helplessness about his illness.
Only daring to cry secretly while taking a bath became Li Zongwei's guilt for his wife, and he was diagnosed with stage III nasopharyngeal cancer in July 2018.
For more than two months, 25 minutes each time, 33 proton treatments, an average of 5-6 times a week, costing nearly 10 million Taiwan dollars, more than two months of torture, made Li Zongwei say that it was too bitter.
From the nose to the throat, the full spread of cancer cells made it almost difficult for Lee Chong Wei to open his mouth, and more than 30 treatments finally gave him hope of successful treatment.
That's curious, how did you get this nasopharyngeal cancer? What is this proton therapy?
Returning to competition after illness
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor that occurs in the nasopharyngeal mucosal epithelium, and this disease is also the most difficult for the public to pay attention to, and according to relevant data, there will be more than 120,000 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the world in 2022 alone.
Even for Li Zongwei, who has been doing proton therapy for more than two months, the cancer cells will be cleared is still a lucky player, and a female star Li Mingwei, who is known as an "anti-cancer singer", suffered from "nasopharyngeal adenoid cystic cancer", fought cancer for 9 years, and suffered from diseases from time to time, even if he insisted on 9 years, he was still invincible, that is, the disease, and finally died.
This condition can cause not only headaches, facial nerve paralysis, but also limited eye movement, hearing loss, ear congestion, and neck lumps.
Sin is the norm.
So what is the proton therapy that Lee Chong Wei received?
Proton therapy is an extracorporeal type of radiation therapy that uses positively charged protons to damage the DNA of cells to destroy cancer cells.
In fact, this treatment has been around for more than 50 years, but it is still regarded as one of the most advanced and precise cancer treatments in the world.
The location of this nasopharyngeal cancer is very special, and the boundaries are not clear, the nasopharyngeal cavity is deep and narrow, and it is close to the cranial nerves and lymphatic tissues, so it is difficult to perform radical surgery, and proton therapy has become "necessary".
Between 15 and 30 minutes at a time, short-term pain is superior to long-term pain.
Naturally, the cost is not low, Li Zongwei spent nearly 10 million Taiwan dollars, equivalent to about 2 million yuan, and the high cost also made many people prohibitive, and Li Zongwei's treatment for more than two months was finally pulled back from the ghost gate.
After more than two months of illness, Li Zongwei returned to the arena after that, but the news of his retirement was released, and the Lin Li battle finally became the end of an era.
After Li Zongwei retired in 2019, Lin Dan retired in 2020, and in June 2023, the two reunited again to stage a national hand exhibition match, which attracted huge attention.
Resources:
Lee Chong Wei is back from fighting cancer! A course of treatment makes the cancer cells regress, what kind of treatment is so powerful-The Paper
Don't sit idly by with terminal cancer! See how celebrities have succeeded in fighting cancer! - The health community
Li Zongwei tearfully recalled the anti-cancer process: his throat was completely broken, he cried secretly in the bath - Global Network
Can Lee Chong Wei's cancer cells be completely eliminated, and advanced anti-cancer therapy can be popularized? -- The Paper
The reunion of Lin Dan and Li Zongwei dimmed the sword light and sword shadow, and there was only strong affection - surging news
Li Zongwei talks about the anti-cancer process: after 33 times of radiotherapy, the throat was completely broken - The Paper