Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Elderly 'denied cancer surgery'
BBC NEWS | Health | Elderly 'denied cancer surgery':
"Elderly women are still being denied potentially life-saving surgery for breast cancer because of their age.
The claims will be made by senior doctors and other leading experts at a conference in London on Wednesday.
They come two years after ministers published a national service framework for older people and pledged to stamp out age discrimination in the NHS.
However, experts say the problem still exists and in many cases is resulting in women dying needlessly. "
Surely if they are "dying needlessly" due to being neglected for reasons of age, they are actually "being killed"? Someone somewhere has decided that they are simply too old to live?
Interesting. And scary.
"Elderly women are still being denied potentially life-saving surgery for breast cancer because of their age.
The claims will be made by senior doctors and other leading experts at a conference in London on Wednesday.
They come two years after ministers published a national service framework for older people and pledged to stamp out age discrimination in the NHS.
However, experts say the problem still exists and in many cases is resulting in women dying needlessly. "
Surely if they are "dying needlessly" due to being neglected for reasons of age, they are actually "being killed"? Someone somewhere has decided that they are simply too old to live?
Interesting. And scary.
