21.   For more than two decades, hospitals have recognized that many terminally ill people do not want aggressive treatment that merely postpones death.

22.   For older people, pain deserves more aggressive treatment with drugs and alternative methods, the doctors said.

23.   He said the information was valuable for judging the effect upon survival of the more aggressive treatments being used today, including radiation and surgery to remove the tumors.

24.   Howard told Lang that he is pleased with how she is responding to aggressive treatment.

25.   Hospitals are geared toward providing aggressive treatment, he said.

26.   How was it done, in an era of high-tech medicine when aggressive treatment seems to be the norm?

27.   If they do, are they in danger of having unnecessarfily aggressive treatment for small tumors?

28.   In some cases, patients desperate for babies insist on aggressive treatment that is more likely to result in high-order multiples.

29.   In fact, overly aggressive treatment can be worse than a certain amount of watchful waiting.

30.   In the end, both the daughter and doctor said, the patient agreed to stop aggressive treatments.