Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/05/why-is-cancer-an-age-related-disease/
Today’s open access review paper goes back to the basics on aging and cancer, a first principles consideration of whether or not the evidence shows that we should think of cancer as a distinct process from aging. It is certainly the case that while cancer incidence increases with age, it doesn’t keep on increasing ad infinitum. In very late life, 90 and older, those who are not already dead from one cause or another actually have lower rates of cancer than younger cohorts. This may not be a only matter of those most prone to cancer having died already, but also reflect something fundamental about the way in which cellular biochemistry changes at that age.
The majority of cancer risk scales with age-related disability of the immune system, and with a growing burden of <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/towards-a-better-understanding-of…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/05/why-is-cancer-an-age-related-disease/
Today’s open access review paper goes back to the basics on aging and cancer, a first principles consideration of whether or not the evidence shows that we should think of cancer as a distinct process from aging. It is certainly the case that while cancer incidence increases with age, it doesn’t keep on increasing ad infinitum. In very late life, 90 and older, those who are not already dead from one cause or another actually have lower rates of cancer than younger cohorts. This may not be a only matter of those most prone to cancer having died already, but also reflect something fundamental about the way in which cellular biochemistry changes at that age.
The majority of cancer risk scales with age-related disability of the immune system, and with a growing burden of <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/towards-a-better-understanding-of…
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