jiliasia casino 'Gave me a second life': How Singapore doctors saved this boy from rare cancer with experimental treatment
SINGAPORE: “I think … I am going to die soon.”
That was the thought running through 10-year-old Viet Tai’s mind after his cancer failed to respond to chemotherapy.
Doctors in Hanoi, where Viet Tai is from, had given up hope. Diagnosed with a rare type of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, treatments in Vietnam failed to stop or even slow the disease.
But when his parents heard how treatment in Singapore might give their son a fighting chance, they sold their house and other assets and made the leap.
It was but a hope, but as it turned out, Viet Tai became the first patient in the world to undergo a new experimental treatment at the National University Hospital (NUH).
With no previous patient, it was hard to know if it would work.
It saved Viet Tai’s life.jiliasia casino
Staff from the National University Hospital at Viet Tai's bedside during his cancer treatment. (Photo: Viet Tai's family)