Perspectives
Nature Reviews Cancer 5, 655-662 (August 2005) | doi:10.1038/nrc1675
Science and society: Cancer and ageing: a nexus at several levels
Lodovico Balducci1 & William B. Ershler1 About the authors
Abstract
Cancer is largely a disease of older people. With the relatively recent expansive growth within the geriatric population, a number of pressing biological and clinical questions that currently remain unanswered need to be addressed. These include what effect age itself has on the development or growth of cancer, and what are the benefits and risks of cancer prevention and treatment for the older person? New insights into the underlying biological processes of ageing provide a frame of reference for addressing these and other related questions.
Author affiliations
- Lodovico Balducci is at the Senior Oncology Program, part of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA.
- William Ershler is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Aging, 1700 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington DC 20007, USA.
Correspondence to: Lodovico Balducci1 Email: Balducci@moffitt.usf.edu
Correspondence to: William B. Ershler1 Email: wershler@iasia.org
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