[MediaMole]

It really depends on the person’s condition. My grandmother developed colon cancer at 85. She had surgery and lived another 12 years. All but the last two, she lived independently and had a full life.

Should she have been given nothing but palliative care because of her age even though she was an active, independent person who could still drive and had full mental competency?

[Jonny foreigner]

It really depends on the person’s condition. My grandmother developed colon cancer at 85. She had surgery and lived another 12 years. All but the last two, she lived independently and had a full life.

Should she have been given nothing but palliative care because of her age even though she was an active, independent person who could still drive and had full mental competency?

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very true indeed. there is nothing like a general age where it´s too dangerous or maybe bether not to operate someone for example. it allways depends on the personal condition and other circumstances. so for example the second operation and the chemo therapy “killed” my grandmother. because her body didn´t recover from this. (so in her case afterwards it maybe would have been better to do nothing because she would have shure lived longer without an operation) but anyway. there is no guarantee in life on anything.
sometimes it´s just luck.
greetings