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Background
Cancer and its treatments may accelerate aging in survivors; however, research has not examined epigenetic markers of aging in longer term breast cancer survivors. This study examined whether older breast cancer survivors showed greater epigenetic aging than noncancer controls and whether epigenetic aging related to functional outcomes.
Methods
Nonmetastatic breast cancer survivors (...
Background
Immune activation/inflammation markers (immune markers) were tested to explain differences in neurocognition among older breast cancer survivors versus noncancer controls.
Methods
Women >60 years old with primary breast cancer (stages 0–III) (n = 400) were assessed before systemic therapy with frequency‐matched controls (n = 329) and followed annually to 60 months; blood was collected...
Background
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has had wide‐ranging health effects and increased isolation. Older with cancer patients might be especially vulnerable to loneliness and poor mental health during the pandemic.
Methods
The authors included active participants enrolled in the longitudinal Thinking and Living With Cancer study of nonmetastatic breast cancer survivors aged...
BACKGROUND
Cancer is a leading cause of death among women of parenting age in the United States. Women living with advanced or incurable cancer who have dependent children experience high rates of depression and anxiety as well as unique parenting challenges. To the authors' knowledge, few studies to date have examined the parenting factors associated with health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in...
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