{"id":114720,"date":"2023-06-06T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/global-silver-tsunami-of-older-cancer-patients-is-coming-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:00:39","slug":"global-silver-tsunami-of-older-cancer-patients-is-coming-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/global-silver-tsunami-of-older-cancer-patients-is-coming-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Global \u2018silver tsunami\u2019 of older cancer patients is coming, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114720\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>\nThe world must urgently prepare for a global \u201ctsunami\u201d of millions of older cancer patients or risk healthcare systems being unable to cope, leading doctors have warned. With life expectancy increasing and a rapidly soaring population of older people, a looming increase in elderly patients with cancer was now a \u201cserious public health concern\u201d, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) said in a report. Cancer centres must prepare for \u201cthe silver oncologic tsunami\u201d, the experts added.<\/p>\n<p>At ASCO\u2019s annual meeting in Chicago, the world\u2019s largest cancer conference, Dr Andrew Chapman, the director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center-Jefferson Health and a specialist in geriatric oncology, said: \u201cAs the population expands and the incidence goes way up, are we really prepared to deal with those needs? I think globally, we\u2019re not prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Older age is a well-established risk factor for cancer but the importance of incorporating older-adult\u2013specific assessments into cancer diagnosis, care and treatment has been under-recognised for years. \u201cWe know cancer is a disease that is associated with ageing, and there are a number of biological mechanisms as to why that is,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cWhat is often times missed is that the older adults\u2019 goals, wants, needs, preferences, and issues are much different than those of the average adult. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s a nihilism \u2013 \u2018if you\u2019re older we\u2019re not going to bother\u2019 \u2013 which is horrible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Older patients often prioritise maintaining independence rather than seeking curative treatments, Chapman says. They care about being able to perform activities such as driving, spending time with family, and hobbies like golf and gardening, he added. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to give somebody treatment that\u2019s going to take that away, they may not want it. Much different than somebody who\u2019s 45 who wants to live for another 40 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Julie Gralow, the chief medical officer and executive vice-president of ASCO, said healthcare systems should act immediately to avoid being overwhelmed by the dramatic rise in older cancer patients. \u201cBy 2040, the global burden is expected to grow to 27.5m new cancer cases and 16.3m cancer deaths simply due to the growth and ageing of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in 2018 there were 17 million new cancer cases and 9.5 million cancer deaths worldwide. Workforce barriers such as a lack of widespread geriatric training and global staff shortages could make adopting models of care to better suit older patients even more challenging, Gralow said. Diversifying clinical trials would also help, she added. \u201cMost clinical trials data comes from younger patients \u2013 very few older patients are included. We need to include older patients in trials so that we can understand the toxicities and efficacies of therapies on this population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the National Cancer Institute projects that by 2040, nearly three quarters (73%) of people living with cancer will be over the age of 65. In Britain, the number of people diagnosed with cancer will rise by a third by 2040, taking the number of new cases every year from 384,000 to 506,000 for the first time, according to analysis by Cancer Research UK. Most of those affected will be 70 or over \u2013 60% of cases and 76% of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/jun\/05\/global-silver-tsunami-of-older-cancer-patients-is-coming-experts-warn\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/global-silver-tsunami-of-older-cancer-patients-is-coming-experts-warn\/\">Global \u2018silver tsunami\u2019 of older cancer patients is coming, experts warn<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6703,757,10280,10281,9714,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-114720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cancer","tag-global","tag-older-patient","tag-silver","tag-tsunami","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}