Cancer and Aging Handbook (ePub)

FOREWORD ix PREFACE xi CONTRIBUTORS xiii PART I CANCER AND AGING IN CONTEXT 1. Epidemiology of Cancer in the Older-Aged Person 3 Lodovico Balducci 2. Biological Aspects of Aging and Cancer 13 Gabriel Tinoco, Mya Thein, and William B. Ershler 3. Physiological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of Aging 35 George A. Kuchel, Julie Robison, and Richard Fortinsky PART II STRATEGIES FOR CANCER PREVENTION IN OLDER ADULTS 4. Overview of Cancer Prevention Strategies in Older Adults 55 Barbara K. Dunn, Peter Greenwald, and Darrell E. Anderson 5. Breast Cancer Prevention 71 Jeanne F. Noe and Hyman B. Muss 6. Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Aging 85 Ernest T. Hawk, Sherri L. Patterson, Lopa Mishra, and Kush K. Patel 7. Prostate Cancer Prevention 97 Barbara Ercole and Ian M. Thompson, Jr. 8. Lung Cancer Prevention 105 Samira Shojaee and Konstantin H. Dragnev PART III CANCER SCREENING GUIDELINES FOR OLDER ADULTS 9. Cancer in Older People: To Screen or Not to Screen? 117 Catherine Terret and Jean-Pierre Droz 10. Breast Cancer Screening 125 Heidi D. Nelson 11. Colorectal Cancer Screening 139 Catherine Quarini 12. Prostate Cancer Screening 153 Anthony B. Miller 13. Other Screening Opportunities for the Future 163 Catherine Quarini PART IV CANCER TREATMENT 14. General Principles in Older Adults with Cancer 175 Martine Extermann 15. Surgery for Older Adults with Cancer 183 Lynda Wyld, Malcolm Walter Ronald Reed, and Thompson Gordon Robinson 16. Chemotherapy in Older Adults with Cancer 205 Matti S. Aapro and Hans Wildiers 17. Radiotherapy in Older Adults with Cancer 221 Ian Kunkler PART V COMMON CANCERS IN THE ELDERLY 18. Breast Cancer 243 Laura Biganzoli, Catherine Oakman, Riccardo A. Audisio, and Ian Kunkler 19. Colon Cancer 269 Demetris Papamichael and Riccardo A. Audisio 20. Lung Cancer 283 Ulrich Wedding 21. Prostate Cancer 315 Nicolas Mottet and Jean-Pierre Droz 22. Ovarian Cancer 335 Claire Falandry, Gilles Freyer, and Eric Pujade-Lauraine PART VI CANCER SURVIVORSHIP AND AGING

Keith M. Bellizzi, Ph.D, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Human Development & Family Studies at the
University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. He
was trained in gerontology and epidemiology and he has spent
the past several years in the Division of Cancer Control and
Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute, leading a
division-wide cancer and aging initiative. Dr. Bellizzi is the
current chair of the research on cancer and aging interest
group of the Gerontological Society of America. He is also a
co-investigator on the Medical Health Outcomes Study and
Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (MHOS/SEER) Program
examining the impact of cancer on pre-existing medical conditions
in older adults.

Margot Gosney, MD, FRCP, is Professor of Elderly Care
Medicine and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences in the
University of Reading, UK. She is also a clinician working in
Elderly Care at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
in Reading. Her research interests lie in the area of aging,
and also include oncology, dental science for stroke patients,
influenza, incontinence, falls and intellectual decline, and
impaired vision and hearing. The association between nutrition and
the health of elderly people has been a feature of Dr. Gosney's
research and the University group has an international reputation
for its findings in this area. She has published widely in
peer-reviewed journals, has authored seven book chapters, and
recently published Managing Older People in Primary Care: A
Practical Guide, edited by Margot Gosney and Dr. Tess Harris;
ISBN: 9780199546589; Oxford University Press, September 2009;
344pp, $67.95.

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