Mina Sedrak, Director of Cancer and Aging Program and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA, shared on X:
“Is early-onset breast cancer an example of accelerated aging?
Here is work from Dr. Hui-Chen Wu from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health at The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, comparing DNA methylation aging biomarkers in Ghanaian women with breast cancer to their sisters without it. An idea National Cancer Institute (NCI) program officers explored in JAMA Oncology commentary.”
Title: Are Early-Onset Cancers an Example of Accelerated Biological Aging?
Authors: Jennifer L. Guida, Lisa Gallicchio, Paige A. Green
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