Cancer can change everything and chooses no one. Even the strongest woman that we know can be inflicted with the disease. For some, cancer is seen as the end of the road – but for many hopefuls, it is just a bend on the road that one resiliently passes through.

Marites Marzan, a mother of three kids and a proud cancer survivor, shares how she faced cancer full of hope.

“At the age of 50, I was diagnosed with stage 3 fallopian tube carcinoma, an abnormal growth of
malignant cells in one or both of a woman's fallopian tubes. At first, I experienced spotting and abnormal duration of my monthly period,, Marites explained.”

Marites got scared so she immediately consulted her ob-gyne and she initially concluded that is due to pre-menopausal period. However, as time passes by, she experienced a lot of changes her my body. That’s where she consulted a doctor from a local hospital and was then diagnosed withfallopian tube carcinoma.

Marites continued expressing, “Years down the line however, my treatment in the Philippines was not successful. I was again instructed to undergo another cycle of chemotherapy and there where I refused to. Some friend of mine told me about Fuda that they have new and advanced treatment in China.”

“Without second thought I took the risk and hoped for the best. Fuda’s diagnosis was the same on the local evaluation in the Philippines. My doctor there was Dr. Chen, an Oncologist and Surgeon in Fuda Cancer Hospital. I trusted his judgments and recommendations on how to treat my disease.

I told myself that I needed to heal for my family, that they need me, and that I need to live to win,” she continued. Fuda Cancer Hospital is known for its personalized cancer treatment program. Dr. Chen gave Marites a Combined Immunotherapy for Cancer (CIC), a treatment done quarterly and Cancer Microvascular Intervention (CMI), wherein a drug is also directly inserted into blood vessels supplying blood to the tumor.

“Aside from CMI, they performed Brachytherapy or Seed knife, a procedure wherein a seed with iodine-125 or palladium-103 seeds (brachytherapy) is implanted in the body. Brachytherapy requires no surgical incision, offers patients a shorter recovery time, and has less chance of troubling side effects,” Marites expounded further.

She continued, “After sometime, I felt the changes in my body, Every day I felt that I was gaining my strength and my hope is slowly being restored. I was given that hope that I will see my kids go to school and seat with them during dinner. Hope that for some time cancer took away from me.”

According to Marites, “Fuda is not just a hospital who treats you - It is an institution that restores your hope and faith. I choose to live, that’s why I flew in to China. Each treatment equates to a new hope and life after cancer. I can say, that going to Fuda was a risk worth taking for.”

Fuda Cancer Hospital: A Hospital that treats and restores hope Fuda Cancer Hospital in Guangzhou, the most experienced cancer hospital who takes a holistic approach in treating cancer celebrates and shares most inspiring stories of a mother who fought cancer just like a man.

The hospital believes in empowering each patient to have a new hope, to feel confident and a gratified life after treatment with the help of their advance treatment. With more than a hundred survivors, Fuda continues to raise the bar in treating cancer and each survivors stand as an advocate to their fellow patient in seeking the right treatment.