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Guidance and support key to beating cancer in old age
No one should be deemed too frail for treatment based on their chronological age alone
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Madam Ng (not her real name), 82, first felt a lump the size of a golf ball in her left breast about six years ago.
It took her a year before she sought medical help. And when a cancer specialist diagnosed her with early-stage breast cancer, she was devastated.
