带癌生存并不是“神话”。我国著名肿瘤学家、上海中医药大学博士生导师何裕民教授指出:80岁以上老人因其他原因死亡而解剖尸体者,约1/4发现体内有癌肿,但他们生前并未觉察,也未对健康构成任何危害。这是因为老年患者癌细胞的生物活性锐减,通常其发展缓慢;同时,老年人感觉相对迟钝,有些症状也就不很明显。 Survival with cancer is not a “myth.” Professor He Yumin, a well-known oncologist and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that elderly people over the age of 80 who have died of other causes have dissected their bodies. About one quarter of them found cancer in their bodies, but they were unaware of their lives and they were not aware of it. Health poses any hazard. This is because the biological activity of cancer cells in elderly patients is drastically reduced, and its development is usually slow; at the same time, the elderly feel relatively dull and some symptoms are not obvious.