Surgery, Chemo & Radiation: Accelerating Aging in Cancer Treatment

💡 Cancer & Aging Connection
Cancer thrives in an aged immune system. It’s not just about how old you are, but how “aged” your immune cells and body are on a biological level.

🧬 What the 2024 Study Found
A recent study of breast cancer patients (average age 55) analyzed aging at the cellular level during and after treatment using advanced transcriptomics:

1️⃣ Cellular Senescence: Immune cells showed significant aging through markers like P16INK4A.

2️⃣ DNA Damage Response: Evidence of sustained genetic damage.

3️⃣ Inflammatory Signaling: Chronic inflammation accelerated aging and cancer progression.

🚨 The Double Negative

Combining chemo and radiation led to significant and sustained biological aging—a key driver in cancer recurrence and progression. If cancer is a disease of aging, how can we fight it by accelerating the very process that fuels it?

A Better Way Forward
At Williams Cancer Institute, we’re transforming the way cancer is treated by focusing on approaches that protect and even restore your immune system.

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Supporting Evidence:
- Judith E Carroll, Catherine M Crespi, Steve Cole, Patricia A Ganz, Laura Petersen, Julienne E Bower, Transcriptomic markers of biological aging in breast cancer survivors: a longitudinal study, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2024;, djae201,

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