Up to 85% of adult cancer survivors and 99% of adult survivors of childhood cancer live with
an accumulation of chronic conditions, frailty, and/or cognitive impairments resulting from …

Advances in early detection, treatment, and supportive care have resulted in an estimated
16 million cancer survivors who are alive in the United States today. Outcomes have notably …

Observational data have shown that some cancer survivors develop chronic conditions like
frailty, sarcopenia, cardiac dysfunction, and mild cognitive impairment earlier and/or at a …

There are almost 14-million cancer survivors in the United States and the population is
growing. Almost two-thirds of these survivors are age 65 or older. Given this, it is imperative …

Abstract In September 2010, the Cancer and Aging Research Group, in collaboration with
the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Aging, conducted the first of three …

The US population of cancer survivors age≥ 65 years will continue to grow rapidly over the
next few decades. This growth will be driven largely by the aging of the national population …

Julia H. Rowland, Rosemary Yancik for which latest figures are available, only 15 (7%) of
the 212 studies examining survivors' posttreatment outcomes that were supported National …

As the population expands, over the period from 2000 to 2050, the number and percentage
of Americans over age 65 is expected to double. This population expansion will be …

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 …

It is a great privilege for us to introduce the second special issue ofJournal of Clinical
Oncology (JCO) to be devoted to geriatric oncology. The first special issue, which was …