For Many Dying Elderly in Bay Area, Aggressive Cancer Treatment Despite Their Wishes

Most seniors with terminal cancer say they want to die at home or in a hospice, surrounded by loved ones, not high-tech medical heroics. Yet a new study finds many of them spend their final days in hospital intensive care units, or leave the hospital only a few days before they die. What's more, researchers from the famed Dartmouth Atlas Group found, where you live may have a lot to do with what happens to you. For example, 45 percent of senior advanced cancer patients in St. Petersburg spent time in an intensive care unit during their last month of…

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