A high proportion of cancer occurs primarily in older persons, and incidence of the major cancers is greater. This, combined with the expansion of an aging America, is bound to have far reaching effects on the nation's healthcare industry. This summary of a workshop held in October 2006, reviews the various important implications of changing demographics and the cancer disease burden in the United States.
and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, Clare Stroud, Sheena Posey Norris, Lisa Bain
National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Institute of Medicine, and Public Policy Committee on Science, Engineering, Panel on Scientific Communication and National Security
Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Committee for Evaluating Medical Technologies in Clinical Use