Chapter 833: The Most Awesome Dean in the Country

Surgery requires precise identification of tumor tissue; otherwise, even if all organs and tumors are removed, it's impossible to distinguish which parts are tumors, which are normal, and which are mixed tissues.

Of course, with his extensive anatomical experience, Yang Ping could make judgments based on visual recognition and the touch of his fingers. If he combined this with the memory of enhanced CT and PET-CT images, his assessments were almost always accurate.

But not every doctor is Yang Ping, and in his view, if he were the only one capable of performing the surgery, it would be his failure.

Any surgical technique that is improved, simplified, and made widely available is a good method; otherwise, relying on one doctor's efforts will only allow so many surgeries to be performed, no matter how hard they work.

The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is below 8%, with 90% of patients dying within a year after surgery.