Diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 71, Du Yingfen died of the disease last year not knowing her.diagnosis, as her family kept the news from her for two years.
“We just said it was a rheumatism,”said her husband Xu Shengxun.
Keeping a cancer diagnosis from patients in an attempt to shield them from worry is common in China. But the country’s rising cancer burden — 4.3m cases were diagnosed in 2015, twice the 2000 figure and more than any other country — has led some doctors to rethink the practice on the grounds that it hinders treatment.
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