This involves early Dr. Michael Lichtenstein discusses health care with Mrs. Irene Wilson and her daughter, Theresa diagnosis and promising new interventions, he said. We are studying vaccine therapy for cancer. When you know how the cancer cell is different, then you will know what therapy to put in. Immunotherapy is much more subtle and easier on the body, he added. Several basic facts about cancer and aging put the importance of the Geriatric Oncology Program s work into perspective.
Cancer incidence increases with age.
It is so much more frequent that cancer is a disease of the elderly. Certain defense systems protect your body. Aging is a slow, gradual accumulation of damage to these systems, he said. Mortality from cancer also increases with age until 85 years when the risk goes down, Dr. Vijg said. If a person has reached 85 without having cancer, he has very strong defense systems thanks to genetics.