This isn't a specific question, but more of a general query. My best friends Granny is 90 years old, and she had a colonoscopy like a month or so ago and they found a baseball sized tumour in her colon. She wasn't having any issues really, just not pooping very often. So they did surgery, which went fine with no complications, but she's not recovering well from the surgery. She went home for like a day, and then spiked a fever and had to go back into the hospital and she's just kind of doing poorly. Before the colonoscopy and everything she was pretty much fine for a 90 year old. But it's just been this like, downward cascade since then.
So my question is, why would they even do all this to someone who is 90 years old? You can't exactly extend the life of someone that old, and the quality of her life was unaffected by the cancer when it was found. I also know that Granny didn't even want a colonoscopy, she said years ago that at her age if she has something she doesn't want to know because she's on borrowed time anyway and she'd rather not spend whatever time she has left worrying about it, so I have a feeling there is some pressure coming from the family but like, what exactly is the point of treating cancer in someone who is that old in general? Is that normal nowadays?