Cancer in the aged.
The incidence of cancer rises with age. From epidemiologic and clinical viewpoints, cancer differs significantly among different age groups. The symptoms and signs are often masked by the more frequent debilities of old age. A few sites account for the majority of cancers in the elderly. No patient should be denied the full use of any appropriate form of therapy on the grounds of old age alone.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology