"I have a patient here and would like to invite you to assist in a consultation."
Wanting a medical student like her to assist in a consultation? Assisting in consultations usually involves low-ranking doctors first, and if unsatisfactory, higher-ranking doctors are called upon. Xie Wanying had every reason to think she misheard.
"It's a patient with anastomotic leak after gastric cardia cancer surgery." Wei Guoyuan briefly introduced the case to help her understand why she was suddenly sought for assistance.
Gastric cardia cancer is often classified as stomach cancer domestically. Its incidence and mortality are calculated under stomach cancer statistics. Actually, it's a junctional cancer. Anatomically speaking, the cardia is located at the junction of the esophagus and stomach, where tumors exhibit characteristics of both gastric cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma. In the future, it will be more accurately defined in medicine as gastroesophageal junction cancer.
