At his age is chemo really worth it? I kinda feel like I'd forgo it myself, just focus on enjoying what's left rather than spend years puking my guts out.
My grandma survived cancer 3 times (different cancers: breast, skin and ovarian) and lived to be 97. She got radiation treatment for the skin cancer at ~85. You would be surprised how long people can live and how much they can cling to life with adequate medical support. When she got cancer the 3rd time at 95 she just got meds to slow it and deal with symptoms but didn't bother with chemo or radiation, but if she was 75 she would have 22 more years of lie.
Yeah that's fair. Both my grandma and grandpa declined fast at like 80, so for me I never saw much appeal living that long. But I just remembered my great grandpa lived to 93 and in pretty good health mentally and physically till like 89 or so, so idk.
I guess my subjective perspective is at play here. Neither of my grandparents had good quality of life much after 75, so I guess for me I always viewed anything after 80 as a total loss but then again my great grandpa lived pretty decently till he was 90 so I guess everyone is different
For sure, and that's a calculation you can make with your doctor if you're in that situation. I'm in favor of allowing humane assisted suicide if qol is gonna be shit due to pain, dementia, or whatever else. But every cancer is different with different treatment side effects, etc.
At his age is chemo really worth it? I kinda feel like I'd forgo it myself, just focus on enjoying what's left rather than spend years puking my guts out.
Depends on the prognosis, but with proper medical supervision, the answer
is definitelycould be yes. He's only 75.That's... uh, pretty old.
My grandma survived cancer 3 times (different cancers: breast, skin and ovarian) and lived to be 97. She got radiation treatment for the skin cancer at ~85. You would be surprised how long people can live and how much they can cling to life with adequate medical support. When she got cancer the 3rd time at 95 she just got meds to slow it and deal with symptoms but didn't bother with chemo or radiation, but if she was 75 she would have 22 more years of lie.
Yeah that's fair. Both my grandma and grandpa declined fast at like 80, so for me I never saw much appeal living that long. But I just remembered my great grandpa lived to 93 and in pretty good health mentally and physically till like 89 or so, so idk.
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I guess my subjective perspective is at play here. Neither of my grandparents had good quality of life much after 75, so I guess for me I always viewed anything after 80 as a total loss but then again my great grandpa lived pretty decently till he was 90 so I guess everyone is different
For sure, and that's a calculation you can make with your doctor if you're in that situation. I'm in favor of allowing humane assisted suicide if qol is gonna be shit due to pain, dementia, or whatever else. But every cancer is different with different treatment side effects, etc.