Healthy Aging After Surviving Childhood Cancer Depends on Age, Treatments Received
Survivors of childhood cancers have worse rates of healthy aging with older age at diagnosis, according to results of a study presented...
Aug 12
The ticking ‘epigenetic’ clock measures true biological age
Though almost all childhood cancer survivors experience some epigenetic age acceleration, the experience is not the same across the whole...
Dec 12, 2024
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Higher Rate of Aging-Related Mutations Than the General Population
Childhood cancer survivors tended to have a higher rate of aging-related mutations in stem cells — a condition called clonal ...
Feb 13, 2023
Childhood cancer 'can speed ageing by 25 years': Illness in under-21s can lead to risk of fr
Having cancer as a child or young adult can accelerate the ageing process by around 25 years, a study has found. Read more:...
Aug 25, 2020