How ageing processes influence cancer
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The ageing of populations worldwide is leading to an unprecedented increase in cancer cases and fatalities. Understanding the links between cancer and ageing is therefore more important than ever. How the interplay of ageing-associated changes affects cancer initiation and progression is complex, however, and some ageing processes probably foster cancer development whereas others hinder it, possibly in a tissue-specific manner. In the emerging age of cancer, how can our growing understanding of the biology of ageing inform cancer biology?
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The evolution of large body sizes and longevity is strongly associated with the evolution of short telomeres and telomerase suppression, presumably for tumour suppression.
“Taken together, it seems that the evolution of large body sizes and longevity is strongly associated with the evolution of short telomeres and telomerase suppression, presumably for tumour suppression (de Magalhaes, 2013; Gomes et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- de Magalhães, J. P.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Cancer
- Published
- 2013-04-24
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 357-365
- ISSN
- 1474-175X (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1768
- OpenAlex
- W2151807108
- Semantic Scholar
- 8f4d94eb9050f10effdcac27c2d787f329aff649
- Cited by
- 367
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- 27
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- FWCI
- 1.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Cancer (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- European Science Foundation
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Keywords
- aging, cancer, carcinogenesis, premature aging, longevity, tumor initiation, tumor progression
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, DNA Damage, Homeostasis, Humans, Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Caloric Restriction, Telomere Homeostasis
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