英語検定ライティング準１級（第240回）

医学の発達「高齢人口増加に貢献する話」

彼の父親は２度もガンの手術を受けている。受けていなければ今いない。早期発見が功を奏している。定期的に検査を受ければ悪性に発達する前に除去できる。家庭内の平均年齢は高い。
His father has ever had cancer surgeries twice, otherwise, he is dead by now, and “Early detection and Early treatment” has made positive contributions to his father’s current physical condition, we can imagine.
He has had a regular health check in the hospital nearby, which enables his benign tumor to be removed before it changes into the malignant counterpart, he says.
As a result, the average age at home is still high, an article says.

１年前も摘出手術を受けている。薬物治療と切除治療の２種が選択肢にあった。インフォームドコンセントだ。前者は副作用があるし後者は体力がいる。赤外線治療も提案されていたな。
Last August, his father took a cancer operation in the same hospital in order to remove his cancer tumor.
There were two kinds of treatment options : a drug treatment or an excision surgery, which might be called “Informed Consent,” and the former was likely to be accompanied by the intense side effects, and the latter should require him to have enough physical strength.
In addition, he was suggested the “infrared therapy.”

最後の選択肢は完全に焼き切れるかどうかが問題だとのこと。大学の附属病院なので若い研修医が担当だった。結局は切除手術を受けて８時間もかかった。そして約１週間で退院できた。
The last option had a problem whether the surgeon could remove the tumor completely or not, an expert said.
The hospital was the institution the university ran, where numerous young doctors existed, and one of them explained extremely complicated procedures about his operation to him and his father.
Finally, he took the second option, the excision surgery, which took over eight hours, and the operation was successful enough for him to leave the hospital in about a week, and he has been at home, we imagine easily.

生命力があるなと思う。80歳を超えて手術までして生きる。高齢者が減らないわけだ。彼は目標がないので安楽死を希望している。退職金を使い果たして安楽死したいと思っている。
His father had the vitality to live longer because he has ever had two critical cancer surgeries to survive the deadly and lethal situations, which demonstrates that the number of senior citizens hasn’t been stably small.
In fact, “He” wishes that he could be killed with “Doctor-assisted suicide” because he doesn’t have the right targets, although he wants to exhaust what he has in the bank account before his euthanasia, he says.