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Webinar: Healthcare Delivery Research and Opportunities in Older Adults with Cancer via AcademyHealth shar.es/aftKGr

🚨 Registrations NOW OPEN! 🚨 The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) is our opportunity to 'do business differently' towards #AddingLifeToYears. Join us to: 📈 Track progress 🎉 Celebrate leadership & innovation 🚀 Learn about new ways to work together ▶️ INFO + REGISTER: bit.ly/UNGA-decade


.Jude Carroll: “Blood tests for c-reactive protein are used routinely in the clinic to determine risk of heart disease. Our study suggests this common test for inflammation might also be an indicator of risk for cognitive problems reported by #BreastCancer survivors.” #BCSM

New publication in Journal of Clinical Oncology from the Thinking and Living with Cancer (TLC) study team! They studied cognition in #BreastCancer survivors up to 5 years after diagnosis! . UCLA Semel Institute Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Initiative at Georgetown Lombardi Moffitt Research ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12…




Register for a @NCIBehaviors - NCI Cancer Control webinar on Nov 7 at 1pm ET to hear Dr. Jeanine Genkinger and Dr. Zhaoming Wang discuss associations between aging biomarkers and cancer risk and outcomes. cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/events/ass… Columbia Epidemiology Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Research

Join the NASEM Health's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education #IHPEGF Nov. 15 and Dec. 7 & 8 for the workshop series, "Addressing the Needs of an Aging Population through Health Professions Education & Implementation Science": bit.ly/3htyb4I

Georgetown Lombardi 's ACS Research -funded Diversity in Cancer Research Summer 2023 internship program is open for applications 🎉! New this year? Our 10-week paid internship program provides on-campus housing! 1/2


Don't miss out on The National Institute on Aging (NIA)'s Fourth Geroscience Summit, "Geroscience for the Next Generation," on April 24-26, 2023. nia.nih.gov/2023-fourth-ge…

The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Research on Aging presents: Focus on Aging Research: “Aging and the Brain” Thursday, 3/23/23 from 4:00-5:00 pm Register here: umaryland.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

On April 24-26, the fourth Geroscience Summit will take place! The summit represents an opportunity to review what we have accomplished and discuss as a scientific community what priorities should be for future actions. Read more: academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol… Gerontological Society of America (GSA)

Remembered as a caring doctor and world leader in #GeriatricOncology at City of Hope, Dr. Arti Hurria was a first-generation American who found her calling working to ensure that #CancerCare met the specific needs of the elderly. cancer.gov/news-events/ca… #WomensHistoryMonth


🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 New research from Jeanne Mandelblatt, @HayleyBrooklyn, Traci B, PhD, Lucile Adams-Campbell, and Wayne State University colleagues shows a relationship between discrimination, aging, and frailty among African American cancer survivors. doi.org/10.1002/cncr.3…

Register for an @NCIBehaviors - NCI Cancer Control webinar on April 4 at 2:00pm ET to hear Drs. Kuchel and Sedrak speak on optimizing the health of #cancersurvivors by targeting the biology and heterogeneity of aging. Register: bit.ly/3ZBdxAq City of Hope #survonc


Exciting new research from Jeanne Mandelblatt, @HayleyBrooklyn, Traci B, PhD, Lucile Adams-Campbell, and Wayne State University colleagues shows a relationship between discrimination, aging, and frailty among African American cancer survivors.



This new ACS Journal Cancer article from the Thinking and Living with Cancer (TLC) study team explores the relationship between cancer, inflammation, and cognitive function among older #BreastCancer survivors. doi.org/10.1002/cncr.3… Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging #GeriOnc