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，两个单词都写错啦。。。 -布兰雅- ♀ (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，他们没抵抗力了 -hz82000- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2018 postreply 08:41:18

• 发展快慢都没那么重要了。老年人，80以上，理论上说，癌症发展慢，主要是跟40岁的人比较。很多肝癌晚期的中年人，几个月就完了，老人 -gamlastan- ♀ (202 bytes) () 04/13/2018 postreply 11:35:07