Perhaps as a result of Mr. Chou's optimistic spirit, even though he was diagnosed as being in the final stages of liver cancer in 1996, and daily grew weaker, it was not until the end of 1997 that he entered the hospice at National Taiwan University Hospital.
或許是周伯伯樂觀的性情，從民國八十五年檢查出肝癌末期後，儘管身體日益虛弱，卻在八十六年底才住進台大醫院緩和治療病房。