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Malignant tumors at very old ages
G Stanta1, L Campagner, F Cavallieri
1Registro dei Tumori della Provincia di Trieste, Ospedale Maggiore, Italy.
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|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Unselected autopsy findings of nonagerians reviewed by the authors in the last 20 years, confirm a decline in malignant tumors at very old ages. Two main factors are thought to be responsible for this evidence: a less aggressive biological behavior of cancer in the oldest old; the crucial role played by comorbidity as the cause of death.