At the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, a horse-faced doctor was quickly scanning through the medical reports. These reports were very detailed, even the number of pustules on Wade Wilson's buttocks was written on them.
"This is impossible."
Stephen Strange placed the medical examination report on the table. Although he had already read the electronic version sent to his mailbox, he still couldn't believe the report in front of him.
The cancer medical center sent him the patient's medical records more than a month ago.
As one of the most important surgeons in the world, almost every day, hospitals send him cases that they cannot solve. Dr. Strange selects challenging cases to solve, gaining both fame and fortune, and his annual income has reached the top of New York City.
When he received this case, he took it without hesitation because the reward was so generous, and performed a tumor removal surgery on Wade Wilson.
He was very confident in his skills and thought he had completely removed the tumor from Wade's body. However, the reality was not as he expected. The cancer cells in Wade Wilson's body soon reappeared and became more serious.
Because this was one of the few cases in which surgery failed, Dr. Strange was very concerned. After several rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the patient's physical condition could never be so healthy.
More importantly, the part of the liver that was removed grew back. Although the human liver has a strong ability to compensate and regenerate, once it is removed, it is removed, and the regrown liver will not be exactly the same as the original liver.
"What medicine did you use on the patient?"
he asked, addressing Dr. Clayton.
“We also didn’t know that after someone came to visit the patient, his condition improved dramatically.”
Clayton looked at Strange's shocked expression, feeling a little secretly pleased. As a specialist at the cancer medical center, he was already better than most doctors in the United States, but Strange still didn't give him any face, and even pointed out the omissions in his surgery in public without mercy, and mocked him.
"How about it, are you willing to undergo surgery again?"
Dr. Strange nodded. As a doctor, he took on various cases that other hospitals could not handle not just for the money. He enjoyed the challenges brought by various complex and strange cases. He was obsessed with solving cases that other doctors diagnosed as terminal illnesses with his own hands.
This patient was a case where he had failed slightly, and now that he had another chance, he would never give up. Moreover, he was very interested in the changes in Wade Wilson.
The cancer medical center quickly prepared for the operation, with the center's best anesthesiologist, most experienced nurses, and even several specialists to serve as Strange's assistants.
Strange was wearing a sterile surgical gown, holding a scalpel in his hand, looking at Wade Wilson who had been anesthetized. This guy was even more talkative than him. In the previous operation, before he was anesthetized, he madly attacked his appearance and made up a few jokes, making him so embarrassed in the operating room for the first time.
He took a deep breath and cleared his mind of distracting thoughts. His hands were as steady as a rock. He cut open Wade's chest with one knife. The laparoscope clearly transmitted the situation inside the chest cavity to the medical monitor in the operating room.
There was a sound of people gasping in the operating room, and some people even couldn't help vomiting. As doctors in the cancer center, they had seen countless patients, but this was the first time they had seen such a strange tumor.
The purple-black tumor attached itself to the healthy internal organs, wriggling slowly, with countless tiny tentacles spreading out from it, wrapping deeply into the body like dodder, entangled with each other, crisscrossing each other, with a terrifying and weird beauty.
The hospital's CT scan didn't detect these strange tentacles at all.
"calm."
Strange let out a low growl, and the operating room became quiet again.
"What's going on? Is it because of the use of that unknown drug?"
Dr. Clayton regained his composure. Such strange cancer cells really didn't seem to be naturally produced.
"No, the patient's cancer cells were originally in this form. They just became what they are now under the catalysis of the drug."
Strange was already very curious about the reason why the previous operation failed. Now it seemed that he only removed the tumor but did not clean up the tentacles.
"Do you want to give up the surgery?"
Clayton asked solemnly.
"No, there's no way I could just give up on such a challenging case."
Strange's eyes flashed with a bit of fanaticism. The scalpel in his hand was like a sword in the hands of a peerless swordsman, penetrating the gaps with thinness, deftly removing the tumor parasitic on the organs without damaging the organs themselves.
It took him more than two hours to remove a tumor, and completely peel off the tentacles that spread from it. Sweat almost soaked his whole body, because of the long period of concentration, his physical strength was severely depleted.
The removed tumor was still slowly wriggling and waving its tentacles, as if it had an independent life.
Even the most experienced doctors were still horrified when they saw such a strange scene. The cancer in this patient was definitely not ordinary.
After a long operation lasting 17 hours, all the tumors visible to the naked eye were removed, and Strange's proud hands could not help but tremble slightly. He was exhausted and could not even finish suturing the wound, so he had to leave it to other doctors to finish.
A large plate of tumors was placed beside the operating table, emitting a disgusting stench. The tumors that had been removed earlier had already lost their vitality and turned completely black, while the tumors that had been removed not long ago were still very fresh and full of vitality.
They are not yet able to survive apart from their mother.
"I want a sample of the tumor."
Strange sat in a chair outside the operating room. He had difficulty speaking now. The cancer cells in the patient's body still existed, and he did not think that traditional chemotherapy and reflexology would be effective against this strange cancer cell.
"Of course, Doctor Strange."
Dr. Clayton had to admit that he only lasted five hours as an assistant before he had to ask someone else to replace him. He also kept a sample and prepared to send it to the agent from the CIA.
The cancer cell tissue removed in the last operation was destroyed after routine testing and analysis. This time, the cancer center is prepared to mobilize all resources to figure out the pathology of this special cancer.