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Individual Aging and Cancer Risk: How are They Related?

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  • Svetlana Ukraintseva

    (Duke University)

  • Anatoli Yashin

    (Duke University)

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When individuals get older, the risk of many chronic diseases increases. This increase is in agreement with common theories of aging, such as mutation accumulation, wear and tear, antagonistic pleiotropy, etc. Surprisingly, however, the risk of some chronic conditions (e.g. asthma, arterial hypertension) declines in the old. The cancer incidence rate also declines at old ages after a steep increase during adult life. It contrasts with the continuing increase in total mortality that is often referred to as the aging process. Which forces contribute to a decline in cancer risk in the old? In this paper we review evidence from experimental biology, illustrating the ambivalent role of individual aging in cancer risk, in particular in forming non-monotonic age-patterns of cancer incidence rate. We show that age-associated changes in the organism may contribute not only to the rise, but also to the deceleration and the decline in cancer risk at old ages.

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  • Svetlana Ukraintseva & Anatoli Yashin, 2003. "Individual Aging and Cancer Risk: How are They Related?," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 9(8), pages 163-196.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:9:y:2003:i:8
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.9.8
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    1. Svetlana V. Ukraintseva & Anatoli I. Yashin, 2005. "Economic progress as cancer risk factor. I: Puzzling facts of cancer epidemiology," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2005-021, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    2. Belzunce, Felix & Ortega, Eva-Maria & Ruiz, Jose M., 2007. "On non-monotonic ageing properties from the Laplace transform, with actuarial applications," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 1-14, January.
    3. Joanna Dȩbicka & Beata Zmyślona, 2019. "Modelling of lung cancer survival data for critical illness insurances," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 28(4), pages 723-747, December.
    4. Konstantin Arbeev & Anatoli Yashin & Svetlana Ukraintseva & Lyubov S. Arbeeva, 2005. "Mathematical Models for Human Cancer Incidence Rates," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 12(10), pages 237-272.

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    Keywords

    aging; cancer; cancer incidence rate;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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