高龄人带癌生存并不是“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 The survival of older people 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 80 years of age 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 were not aware of them. Health poses any hazard. This is because the biological activity of cancer cells in elderly patients has been drastically reduced, and their development has been slow;