Dentists Fight against Malignant Tumour

“We often perform surgeries on patients with terminal tumour,” says Pak Song Guk, head of the tumour surgery department of the General Dental Hospital under the Ministry of Public Health. “We believe that doctors should never abandon the patient even if he or she may give up,” He added.

Last year, the department was to perform surgery on a patient with ulocarcinoma in the third stage. The patient was a prestigious doctor of agriculture, and he had been so absorbed in his research work that he was unaware that his disease had turned into a malignant tumour.

The patient’s condition was very serious as tumour had been metastasized to the lungs following the lymph nodes, but after several consultations, Pak and other doctors of the department decided to perform radical neck dissection and wound tissue repair surgery. The operation lasted for approximately 8 hours and the patient was successfully cured. 

Deeply grateful, the patient said that he was born again thanks to the doctors’ utmost sincerity and high medical skills. The department annually performs big operations on more than ten patients suffering from malignant tumour and the cure rate is very high, for which they are called a “competent medical group” in the medical circle.

Having made some successes in the clinical practice of applying various chemotherapies to reduce the rate of recurrence and metastasis after surgery, they are now concentrating efforts on the research to find other reasonable surgical options for different lesions.