Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/12/cancer-survivors-exhibit-greater-risk-of-new-cancers-and-higher-mortality-due-to-those-cancers/
Today’s research materials discuss an interesting aspect of cancer epidemiology. Cancer survivors exhibit a greater risk of developing later primary cancers, unconnected to the prior cancer, and in addition suffer a greater mortality than first time cancer patients with those same cancer types. There are a number of possible explanations for this data, two of which are noted below. The data leans strongly towards the first of the two.
Firstly, cancer risk is driven by specific mechanisms of aging: a faltering immune system, unable to stop cancers in their earliest stages by killing precancerous cells efficiently enough; greater chronic inflammation, spurring faster growth of cancerous tissue; greater levels of <a href="https://www.fightagin…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/12/cancer-survivors-exhibit-greater-risk-of-new-cancers-and-higher-mortality-due-to-those-cancers/
Today’s research materials discuss an interesting aspect of cancer epidemiology. Cancer survivors exhibit a greater risk of developing later primary cancers, unconnected to the prior cancer, and in addition suffer a greater mortality than first time cancer patients with those same cancer types. There are a number of possible explanations for this data, two of which are noted below. The data leans strongly towards the first of the two.
Firstly, cancer risk is driven by specific mechanisms of aging: a faltering immune system, unable to stop cancers in their earliest stages by killing precancerous cells efficiently enough; greater chronic inflammation, spurring faster growth of cancerous tissue; greater levels of <a href="https://www.fightagin…
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