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Title: Get ready for an upsurge in baby boomers with cancer
Post by: MillCreek on May 08, 2015, 08:23:12 AM

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/05/08/403523980/cancer-spawns-a-construction-boom-in-cleveland?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

As the population ages, cancer diagnoses increase. This is fueling a building boom in cancer treatment facilities.

Title: Re: Get ready for an upsurge in baby boomers with cancer
Post by: lee n. field on May 08, 2015, 10:38:09 AM

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As the population ages, cancer diagnoses increase.

(waves)

"Here!"

Title: Re: Get ready for an upsurge in baby boomers with cancer
Post by: SADShooter on May 08, 2015, 11:49:14 AM

Mom=Boomer with multiple cancers, Dad=pre-Boomer with cancer. I don't expect I'll live long enough, but if I happen to I imagine I'm on a clock.

In general, I encourage medical/MPH students I speak with to seriously consider gerontology and related fields. And we all know cancer research/treatment is and will be steady work absent a serious black swan discovery.

Title: Re: Get ready for an upsurge in baby boomers with cancer
Post by: brimic on May 08, 2015, 12:10:24 PM

I'm wondering if the large numbers of people with a sizable chunk of the nation's wealth won't help push the discovery of newer, better cancer/aging diseases treatments?