Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Tourist attractions - My father is 58 years old and has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Should we treat him or give up and take him on a trip?

My father is 58 years old and has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Should we treat him or give up and take him on a trip?

From a medical perspective, 58 is not very old for a cancer patient. It feels like a pity to give up treatment and take him on a trip. Because from the perspective of cancer treatment, many patients with advanced cancer are still of therapeutic value. Most of these patients can still prolong their survival and improve their quality of life through active treatment. Even patients in the terminal stage of cancer can still achieve a better quality of life through cancer palliative care, which allows the patient to endure less pain and can also alleviate the pain of losing a loved one to the family.

In terms of the disease itself. Traveling is indeed a pleasant thing, but for a terminal cancer patient, this happiness does not have much significance in the recovery of the cancer patient. It cannot alleviate the pain that cancer brings to patients, and may even aggravate the patient's condition due to the hardship of the journey. And when traveling abroad, once the condition worsens, treatment and care are very difficult, and the cost is astonishingly high.

Cancer

A friend I know well, her father has advanced lung cancer. She also followed other people's advice and took the patient to travel, and they went to a lake with a good environment. At a tourist attraction in a certain province, the patient developed severe hemoptysis and difficulty breathing during the trip. He was unable to return to his hometown for treatment, so he had to stay in a hospital in an autonomous region in a tourist city for treatment. In the end, his condition continued to worsen and he returned to a different place. Because the whole thing happened in a foreign place far away from home, and the place was unfamiliar, hospitalization care and funeral arrangements were full of difficulties, and the work was far from ideal. It left too many regrets. For example, the patient herself regretted not being able to return to her roots. The patient’s relatives and friends regretted not seeing the patient for the last time. She took her father to travel, and she regretted making the wrong decision and often regretted it.

Lung cancer

From a human rights perspective, for a terminal cancer patient, it should be the patient himself who decides how he wants to live out his final life. , especially for a patient who is only 58 years old and has full civil capacity, this kind of matter must be made by the patient, rather than by his/her children making the final arrangements for him/her. When the patient himself has a request to travel, as a child, he should clearly explain the seriousness of the patient's condition and the risks that may occur during the trip to his cancer family, and choose a travel location with better medical conditions and closer to his hometown. , if something happens, it is relatively easy to return to your hometown.

Liver cancer

In addition, before traveling, you should keep in good contact with the doctors who treated you before. If a patient has an accident while traveling, the treating doctor has better medical connections than the patient himself. It can help patients and their families get better medical assistance if their condition worsens or an accident occurs while traveling to other places. One of my patients with advanced liver cancer suffered from liver cancer rupture and massive bleeding while traveling in a northern city. When something went wrong, he contacted me urgently, so I helped the patient to be admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery and hemostasis treatment through my friends in the north. Finally, the patient was discharged. Returned home safely.