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GM Conference report: cancer and ageing
A GM conference report on Professor Jane Maher’s session from Clinical Approaches to the Older Patient 2017.
The number of older people living with cancer is set to treble with more than three times as many people aged over 65 years alive with cancer by 2040, amounting to over 4.1 million.1 The majority will have breast and prostate cancer. Professor Jane Maher More than two in three (70%) people with cancer—1.8 million people in the UK—are also living with one or more other potentially serious long-term health conditions. Almost half (47%) have two or more conditions as well as cancer, and more than one in four (29%) have three or more conditions as well as cancer.2 Surviving
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