My 89 year-old mate died over Christmas in hospital of pneumonia. He had had a cough for some weeks, but the silly old bugger wouldn’t go to the doctor until nearly the end.
He had had PCa for five or six years, which was controlled via various hormone therapies, and although the disease was very slow growing, it had only metastasised to his pelvis, and thus to his hip. He could walk without a stick.
So I was somewhat surprised to see the pathologist had put “Pneumonia, and metastatic prostate cancer” on his death certificate.
I took him to all his medical consultations, and there was never any mention of metastasis outside his pelvis, which in itself is not life threatening.
Surprised they never managed to squeeze Covid onto the certificate!
Cheers, John.