Over the past ten years, the number of patients in whom, after examination, detect malignant tumors has increased. After the patient hears the diagnosis of cancer, even regardless of stage, he most often gives up and prepares for the inevitable - death. Most patients lose faith in recovery, and often doctors who turn away from patients, believing that it is impossible to help them, are often to blame. But this is wrong, because there is always a chance, especially if you fall into the hands of a wonderful doctor. Where to find one? In the city of St. Petersburg at the Petrova Research Institute - Evgeny Vladimirovich Levchenko , an oncologist, whom many consider a magician. All patients who managed to get an appointment with him express gratitude. Why is this doctor so unique?
Biography of Levchenko Evgeny Vladimirovich
Today Levchenko is a doctor of medical sciences and leads the department of thoracic surgery. Professor of the Department of Oncology at the I. I. Mechnikov Medical University in St. Petersburg.
But once he was a boy who always made something, for example, in the 5th grade he made his own shirt. He really liked the delicate jewelry work, so every line he had was perfectly even. This childhood experience in the future will allow him to make durable and even seams that are almost invisible.
After school, he did not even think to follow in the footsteps of his family - in medicine, but entered the construction college. He was very fond of bullet shooting, in the army Levchenko even managed to win the championship of the troops.
Only after the army did the young guy become very interested in the science of psychology, which even brought him to a medical institute. Oncologist Yevgeny Vladimirovich Levchenko (the year of birth is not advertised, birthplace is Karachay-Cherkessia) went a thorny path before becoming a doctor from God, who could give a chance to many patients who were abandoned by everyone.
What education did the oncologist Levchenko receive?
Immediately after the army, in 1984, Levchenko entered the medical institute of Stavropol, where he studied medical business. In 1990, he graduated from the institute and decided to undergo residency at this institute with a major in surgery.
From 1992 to 1995 the young man did full-time postgraduate studies at the State Medical Academy of Stavropol with a degree in surgery. In 1995, the surgeon Evgeny Levchenko became a candidate of medical sciences. After another ten years, he becomes a doctor of medical sciences.
In 2001, he received a certificate in the specialty "Oncology", and another 5 years later in the specialty "Thoracic Surgery".
He saved many patients from inevitable death during the years of his fruitful work.
Work experience and its main directions
For more than 27 years, the surgeon Yevgeny Levchenko has been working in the field of medicine. The main focus of his work is oncology of the lungs and respiratory system, esophagus and mediastinal organs.
From 2006 to this day, he is the head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Research Center for Oncology named after N.N. Petrov, and in 2016 he became the supervisor of his own department.
In addition, he still has many other merits:
- the author of more than 130 scientific papers;
- received 12 patents for their methods;
- Member of the Board of the Society of Thoraco-Abdominal Oncologists;
- is a member of the board of the Association of Thoracic Surgeons of the Russian Federation;
- member of the international lung cancer research association;
- member of the European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons;
- Member of the Society of Surgical Oncology.
Oncologist Evgeny Vladimirovich Levchenko has more than 5 thousand operations, most of which are quite complicated, but in the end they turned out to be successful, made it possible for patients to continue living their usual lives and restored faith in a miracle.
Method Levchenko
Levchenko has tremendous experience in the field of isolation of chemoperfusions, during which the lung is disconnected from the circulatory system and the body works at the expense of the second lung during the surgery. This method was independently developed by the doctor in 2006. Today, the number of operations using this method is approaching 200. Most of the patients who were not given even a couple of months of life live 5 or more years. And every second patient has a chance to completely recover even from stage 4 cancer. And other figures show how unique the oncologist Yevgeny Vladimirovich Levchenko’s method is - only 60 such operations were performed in six centers in Europe over the same period of time.
Levchenko believes that his technique will give hopeless patients with cancer a chance to live. Each oncologist will agree that one metastasis in the patient's body is a favorable sign, but what to do when there are 40-50 of them. In this case, the forecasts are disappointing. In Europe, for example, patients who have no more than 10 metastases are sent for surgery, but those who have more are simply denied, saying that their case is no longer operable.
Dr. Levchenko does not refuse anyone who has at least the slightest chance, one of the cases is simply unique.
Unique operation
Almost 9 years ago, oncologist Levchenko Evgeny Vladimirovich performed a unique operation. He simply could not walk past the pain of a 17-year-old girl who was devoured by cancer from the inside. All doctors have already refused it, and all because there were more than 7 dozen metastases in her body. The girl had the 4th stage of osteosarcoma. She had previously had surgery, removing her leg, but metastases went to the lungs.
But Levchenko decided to undergo surgery for the girl and during her applied his unique method, in which he disconnected the lungs from the bloodstream. Artificial blood circulation with a high level of chemotherapy is connected to them. It is this method that completely kills metastases, and after that the lungs are washed with a special composition and connected to the blood circulation.
Almost 9 years have passed after the operation, and the girl lives a full life, she has a 100% remission. This case is the most difficult in the practice of a doctor with a huge heart. In the early stages, cancer can be completely cured, according to Levchenko himself, who has seen many cases during his work.
A striking case from the practice of a surgeon
For more than 20 years, the head of the Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Petrova saves the most severe patients. During this time, he managed to give a chance for the lives of more than one thousand patients. The longest operation lasted more than 18 hours. The doctor himself says that when strength and hope leave him, he turns to God, reading a prayer, and he always helps.
This happened during one operation. The patient’s heart on the table stopped, the doctor was not at a loss and, taking it in his hands, began to conduct a direct massage. This procedure for the emergency return of a person to life is effective only in the first half hour, and only then it is pointless. More than 40 minutes passed, and the heart did not start. All assistants and anesthetists, dropping their hands, have already headed for the operating room doors. But the doctor Evgeny Levchenko could not stop. He began to read the prayer, and 50 minutes after the heart stopped, it began to beat again. The operation ended safely, the next day the patient was feeling well.
Innovative Levchenko Method
For more than 20 years, oncologist Levchenko Evgeny Vladimirovich has been operating on hopeless patients and is constantly developing new methods. He already has about 12 patents. And only recently, the surgeon again carried out a unique operation, where the patient's cervical vertebrae affected by metastases were replaced.
The patient, a 62-year-old man, says he feels great after the operation, although for now he has to wear a special collar.
During the examination, the man was diagnosed with osteochondrosis, the back pain was simply terrible. After an X-ray, doctors noticed that 5 vertebrae were gone. It turns out that 6 years ago the patient underwent surgery to remove a tumor on the kidney, but at that time no one noticed that the metastases went into the vertebrae, during which time they began to collapse. As a result, the patient has 2 out of 7 vertebrae left.
All doctors refused, except for Levchenko, he decided to operate. The man removed all the vertebrae from the second to the sixth, while the spinal cord was not affected. Also, the patient was excised from all cancers on the muscle tissue, blood vessels and nerves, and after the healthy part and the skull were fixed with braces, a mesh tube made of titanium filled with bone cement was installed. This design not only holds the head, but also protects the brain back.
Few experienced doctors in the world would have thought that such an operation is possible, but Levchenko proved that even hopeless patients have a chance of life.
Tracheal Autotransplantation: A Surgeon's Unique Technique
This is another treatment technique developed by the oncologist Levchenko, which he personally applied and proved that it works. A bioengineered prosthesis, created almost entirely from the patient’s tissues, and only a small fraction is an inert material that is used during surgical interventions.
This unique prosthesis was grown inside the patient’s chest tissue, where a new trachea matured for about six months. The frame for her was a bone, which was also grown from the patient’s body part - the periosteum. But the substrate for the epithelium is stem cells. The inner part of the trachea is created from the patient’s mucosa and epithelium.
After the trachea was fully matured, the doctor performed an autotransplantation, which lasted more than 9 hours, but in the end was successful and gave the patient a chance for a normal full life.
Levchenko Dynasty
The Department of Thoracic Oncology in St. Petersburg is a chance for everyone who was denied treatment in their clinic. Dr. Levchenko has golden hands; he gives everyone a chance who will ask for help. He himself says that he really did not want to go to oncology, since he believed that there were only adult patients and there was a high risk of death.
In the family of oncologist Levchenko, all doctors. Wife Natalya Levchenko is a chemotherapist. The eldest son Nikita is already working as a surgeon, and the youngest, Valery, continues his studies at the medical university. The youngest is also going to continue the dynasty begun by the grandfather, who worked for more than 25 years as a thoracic surgeon in the Stavropol Oncology Center.
Doctor's contact details
An oncologist Levchenko works in the Clinical and Diagnostic Department of the Scientific Research Center named after N. N. Petrova. There is a branch in the village. Sand on the street Leningradskaya, 68. An appointment with Levchenko Evgeny Vladimirovich is pre-made by phone.
Reviews of grateful patients
Those who had to face a difficult situation in life will understand people who are ready to kiss the wonderful doctor Levchenko Evgeny Vladimirovich. Reviews of the operations of patients are so vivid and appreciative that it will not work to describe all their gratitude in a few words.
One has only to imagine a man whose cancer destroyed vertebrae for several years, and he had no choice but to wait for the end. But the doctor Levchenko helped him and gave a second life. This man cannot express in words how grateful he is to the one who gave him several years of life.
And a girl of 17 years old, whose leg was not just amputated, but also did not notice lung metastases that spread so quickly that when she saw all this, all the doctors refused her, and Levchenko, using his unique technique, helped.
The doctor helped several thousand patients, and all of them speak of him as a doctor with golden hands.
Finally
The story about the doctor’s methods from God proves that today cancer is not a sentence, and everyone has a chance to completely recover from a deadly disease. If you have a terrible diagnosis, do not despair, sign up for a consultation with Dr. Levchenko, who will surely find a way out of the situation and will do everything possible to help. He is constantly developing new methods and gives the most hopeless patients hope for recovery. It is precisely such doctors as Levchenko who make our medicine omnipotent, able to defeat any ailment, you just need to want this and love your patients.