All about Cancer
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Past few nights have been attending a wake of a childhood friend’s dad, passed on with lung cancer at age 77.
Friend was recounting in tears of his last leg in life.
Diagnosed about 6 months ago at Stage 4. He opted no treatment and was in and out of hospital frequently as a subsidised patient. Doc said minimal time left and was given all the morphine jabs to be self administered at home. He lived his days in super pain (as the cancer had entered his bones and so was even when touch his skin he also would feel painful kind of pain). He once told my friend that if he had the courage, he would prefer to jump down to end his pains as well as the pains for those who were taking care of him (his old wife and his second son who were living with him). Both daughter and dad cried in their helpless manners in dealing with the pain.
Eventually, he passed on in his sleep after a morphine injection at home. All felt sad but knew this was better for everyone.
His wake and funeral cost more than his subsidised medical fees.
His painful journey is a stark contrast to one of my 62 yo friend who died of brain cancer at age 62. A successful high ranking banker with 2 grown up kids. He stayed in a private hospital for about 40 days before passing on. He also opted no treatment and only requested full palliative care. So he was under a full team of specialised palliative care docs and nurses and lived ‘comfortably’ during his last days. Total bill (from diagnosis about 9 months ago to last day) was about $600,000+, covered by IP plan, leaving behind his millions for his family.
Late stage cancer can be real painful as I have witnessed several cases of close friends and relatives so far. So painful for the patient that can break the hearts of those who love him/her.
Many refused receiving palliative care when offered by doc as acceptance equates ‘giving up’. This common mindset needs to change for the good of the patient (if patient is not in the right frame of mind to decide) as the patient is the one suffering while the living ones are the ones who are trying to prolong his life for own selfish ‘love’ and thereby extending the suffering. -
When will human conquer cancer?
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starlight1968sg:
When will human conquer cancer?
I think everyone including yourself knows the answer?????
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starlight1968sg:
When will human conquer cancer?
Does it really matter?
The only certainty in life is death.
If not cancer, there's always heart attack, traffic accident, crazy people in Yishun. -
Yes, we will die eventually, it is just a matter of the processes leading to death
Cancer causes severe pain before death
What diseases cause extreme pain before death? -
Just had lunch with SIL. She told me her colleague whom I always passed my kids' used clothes to, has passed away. I was shocked as his kids are younger than mine.
Initially this colleague complained of 腰痛, scanned here and there at TTHS but found nothing wrong. Then one day he suddenly passed out and was sent to A&E. Already too late, stage 4 stomach cancer. :scratchhead: -
lee_yl:
:sad: and i wonder if those so called general 'cancer cells screening' could detect or not? feel that there are just too many organs to check..and some of symptoms, we may think that is normal.Just had lunch with SIL. She told me her colleague whom I always passed my kids' used clothes to, has passed away. I was shocked as his kids are younger than mine.
Initially this colleague complained of 腰痛, scanned here and there at TTHS but found nothing wrong. Then one day he suddenly passed out and was sent to A&E. Already too late, stage 4 stomach cancer. :scratchhead: -
Well, we can only do that much on health checks and screenings to detect the disease early
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Just do the most likely tests for the cancers that can be treated most easily if caught early. The rest… well, when it’s time to go, it’s time to go. I believe that one of the reasons that the incidence of cancer is increasing is because people no longer die of other things earlier in life. My brother (doctor) told me that if a person lives long enough, he is bound to get some form of cancer because the cells age and change. The people who get cancer early in life are just unfortunate and of course we should do what we can to live healthy lifestyles, but if you can get to 65 or so more or less intact and healthy, that’s pretty good, I think.
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slmkhoo:
Just do the most likely tests for the cancers that can be treated most easily if caught early. The rest... well, when it's time to go, it's time to go. I believe that one of the reasons that the incidence of cancer is increasing is because people no longer die of other things earlier in life. My brother (doctor) told me that if a person lives long enough, he is bound to get some form of cancer because the cells age and change. The people who get cancer early in life are just unfortunate and of course we should do what we can to live healthy lifestyles, but if you can get to 65 or so more or less intact and healthy, that's pretty good, I think.
I kinda share the same belief that our body is not design to last the long.
On top of that, our body is now infused with all sorts of chemical from medicine, vaccines, tainted food etc...we will not be able to tell what a combi of all these will result in in our body
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