Scientific American 上的一段話，不要想當然以爲老年人癌症發展慢

The old idea that cancer is less aggressive in the elderly is not entirely without merit: breast and prostate cancers tend to grow more slowly in older patients. But other types—colon and bladder cancer and certain leukemias, for example—are usually more aggressive and harder to treat. This may in part be because of certain age-related genetic mutations.

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• 哈哈，兩個單詞都寫錯啦。。。 -布蘭雅- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/12/2018 postreply 22:16:09

• 謝謝指正，已改 -dudaan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2018 postreply 04:59:25

• 同意，他們沒抵抗力了 -hz82000- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2018 postreply 08:41:18

• 發展快慢都沒那麽重要了。老年人，80以上，理論上說，癌症發展慢，主要是跟40歲的人比較。很多肝癌晚期的中年人，幾個月就完了，老人 -gamlastan- ♀ (202 bytes) () 04/13/2018 postreply 11:35:07