As more people survive cancer and live longer, understanding the long-term effects of cancer and its treatment becomes increasingly important.
Using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), researchers from the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and TILDA examined physical function among community-dwelling adults aged over 50 with and without a history of cancer.
🔵 Recent cancer survivors were almost twice as likely to report a physical performance limitation.
🔵 Long-term cancer survivors had more than twice the risk of osteoporosis, highlighting an increased risk of falls, fractures, and loss of independence.
🔵 Cancer survivorship has a lasting burden on functional independence that persists past diagnosis and treatment.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879406826001918
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