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Cancer survivorship: the interface of aging, comorbidity, and quality care.
Already including more than 10 million individuals, the number of cancer survivors in the United States will continue to increase into the foreseeable future (1 , 2). This trend is being driven by early detection, improved treatments, and better supportive care, but also, importantly, by the aging of the U.S. population. The number (and percentage) of persons aged 65 years and older in the U.S....
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2 Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Cancer is primarily a disease of the elderly. Greater than 60% of new cancers occur in people aged >65 years, and 60% of the current 10 million cancer survivors are aged 65 years. Given these large numbers and the potential vulnerability of older adults, older cancer survivors have become an especially important group ...
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Introduction The problem of disparities in medical care and clinical outcomes affecting people of color and those living in poverty is convincingly documented by a growing body of evidence from many fields of medicine (1). Cancer care is no exception (2, 3). An often neglected question is what academic health centers can and should do to correct this problem. Clearly, the academic centers are n...
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tic aspect at an early stage after completion of cancer therapy. In addition to the psychological consequences of cancer, the focus is set on somatic disorders as long-term consequences of cancer treatment, such as cytotoxic-induced polyneuropathy, cognitive dysfunction, chronic fatigue, impairment of sexuality and fertility as well as cardiotoxicities. The authors point out in their contributi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23942