feelings of helplessness: cancer

Last month my cousin, 30 years old, fell ill with liver cancer. It’s a big shock and disaster to him and his families.
I looked up plenty of related information on internet and heard no one could be cured if suffering from terminal liver cancer. He studied programming by himself in the past years and started to get a formal job as software engineer last year. I was so happy and proud of him that without educational background he could enter a formal company and earn money for his parents who all were old and live in a village. He worked so hard and was nice to all the people around him. Introversion, quiet, honest person like him, does not how to please girls and his parents. He always called me asking about some suggestions on his job/IT knowledge though I am four years younger than him (In fact, he is much better than me in IT filed  field). He is so humble and respects everyone. Another of his hobbits habits is talking with my mom (his paternal aunt) about his life and work in Shenzhen.
In modern society, it’s hard to make good friends. Most of people will not care about others, because there are always lots of his own things are waiting for him. When they are free, people play with mobile phone, go through  internet, even talk with strangers but not make a call to your good friends and families. Sorry, I was wandering off the subject.
Life will inevitably have setbacks, I always tell friends and myself: Everything will be alright. But not this time, I am so helpless I really have no idea what to say in front of my cousin. I wish no one knew the result and take him as a normal patient trying to cure him at our best. I remember he said to me the day he fell ill that: "They that live longest must die at last", he has been already satisfied with his life. I was touched and remember the strong feeling of helplessness by the words from a young man.
There are more and more people have cancer and ordinary people are too poor to fall a grievous ill in China. He wanted to be sent to Shanghai cuz the best hospitals and experts of in China are in Shanghai. But all of us worry there will not be bed for him, there are too many people from all over the country come to these hospitals. It's ironical that patients on the danger list could not get a bed in China, a large country in everyone’s eyes ! I do not know the situation in other countries. Of course I hope they are not.