Cancer Prevalence in the Elderly

Abstract

These figures confirm the important role of aging in determining the increase in cancer prevalence. The resulting prevalence figures clearly indicate the cancer burden placed on health care services; moreover, the figures will probably increase in the next decades due to a possible improvement in survival and to the dramatic aging of the population, assuming a stable trend for incidence rates. This picture will represent a major challenge for politicians and those dealing with health care planning and social policies in general, especially in the light of the reduction of the available financial resources and the specific features of medical and social needs in the elderly.

Cruciferous Vegetables, Isothiocyanates, and Bladder Cancer Prevention

“…[6,7] It is the second most prevalent neoplasm in men 60 years of age or older. [8][9][10][11] Worldwide, almost 400 000 new cases are diagnosed annually with approximately 150 000 deaths. [12,13] Strikingly, bladder cancer recurrence rate is the highest among all malignancies [14] and it has the highest lifetime treatment costs per patient, of all cancers, due to its high recurrence rate and ongoing invasive monitoring requirements.…”

Metastatic Pattern of Bladder Cancer: Correlation With the Characteristics of the Primary Tumor

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117 prevalent malignant disease in elderly men owing to smoking and environmental exposures and the propensity of the urothelium for metachronous malignant tumors [1,4]. Radical cystectomy is the preferred treatment of patients with operable tumors without evidence of metastatic disease.

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Validation of RiskCheck Bladder Cancer ©, Version 5.0 for Risk-Adapted Screening of Bladder Cancer

“…Medical research during the last decades has identified the risk factors inducing bladder cancer: age [11], gender [12], family history of BC [13], smoking [14,15,16], occupational risk [17,18,19,20,21,22] and medical risk [23,24]. …”