Analysis of age-specific trajectories of cancer incidence rates for all sites combined (data source: International … Agency for Research on Cancer) reveals a leveling-off and decline of the rates at old ages in different countries and time … periods. We apply a non-linear age-period-cohort model (James and Segal 1982) to obtain declining cancer incidence rates at …

The overall trend of cancer mortality in Japan has been decreasing since the 1960s (age-standardized death rates for … ages 30-69), though trends differ enormously among various forms of the disease. Cancer mortality was heavily influenced by … cause some common forms of cancer (stomach, cervical). However, Japanese wealth and development have also been associated …

The overall cancer incidence rate declines at old ages. Possible causes of this decline include the effects of cross … to cancer, decline in some carcinogenic exposures in the old, effects of individual aging which slow down major … phenomenon. We extend the Strehler and Mildvan model of aging and mortality and apply it to the analysis of data on cancer …

of some chronic conditions (e.g. asthma, arterial hypertension) declines in the old. The cancer incidence rate also … 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 …

couples from 1974-2001 to explore the probability of divorce following cancer illness. Divorce rates for around 215 000 … persons diagnosed with cancer were compared to divorce rates for persons for whom all the other observed variables were the … same. No overall harmful influence of a cancer diagnosis was observed. Most cancer forms resulted in small, immediate …