Cancer, aging, and too few data are the perfect storm
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 08:00
in Psychology & Sociology
When an 80-year-old gets cancer, the conventional thinking has been that treatment in most cases would be too risky. A group of geriatric oncologists is pushing a new, national agenda, however, that challenges those assumptions and calls for more research that would provide for evidence-based decisions in the decades ahead.