Most cancer patients are elderly persons. It is predicted that in the near future, 1/3 of people at some stage of their lives will have to seek medical treatment for cancer. It is also speculated that if human’s life span is 120 years, 80% of people will die of cancer.
When an elderly person has cancer, especially cancer at the advanced stage, we must not assume that he has come to the end of his life. Life is to be cherished even for an elderly person who is suffering from cancer.