An article from UK paper The Telegraph. another good reason to speed up a cure for aging if you ask me:
Increasing life expectancy is leading to a growth in cancer cases because more people survive to an old age, according to a study by MacMillan Cancer Support.
Professor Karol Sikora, a cancer specialist at Hammersmith Hospital, London, said the changing demographic of cancer patients would put the health service under increasing pressure.
Asked on the Today programme whether he thought the NHS could cope, he replied: "No. All Western health care systems, however they are funded, are going to struggle with cancer in older people because older people don't just have cancer, they have a whole load of other diseases – diabetes, pulmonary diseases, so they need better care.
"And the current crises we read about in the emergency room every day are a reflection of an increasingly older and frailer population, and they are more difficult to treat."
The number of people in Britain who develop cancer during their life has increased by more than a third in the past two decades, and the number who get cancer but die from another cause has doubled over the same period.
Rest of the article here: http://www.telegraph...r-patients.html
I was sadly unable to put tags on this post for some reason...sorry.
Edited by Droplet, 07 June 2013 - 01:43 PM.
