Dr Gerrit - Jan Liefers (MD, PhD), a surgical oncologist and head of
the geriatric oncology research group at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands), said: «For a screening program to be effective, one would expect that the incidence of early stage breast cancer would increase while the incidence of advanced stage cancer would decrease because any cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage.
The
Geriatric Oncology Program brings together expertise from across UNC to ensure the highest quality cancer care for older patients and to conduct
research that furthers understanding of the factors affecting cancer treatment in the elderly.