Planning For 2020: Increasing Elderly Population Poses Huge Challenges In Cancer Care

Huge challenges face healthcare professionals and policy makers in planning for, and providing cancer care over the next decade or so. Chief amongst these will be ensuring that healthcare professionals have the skills and knowledge to treat a greater number of elderly people with cancer, that current inappropriate ageist attitudes towards the elderly cease, and that advances are made in ensuring that cancer patients are able to comply with their treatment. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cancer on September 25th, 2007