Cancer and aging

With the majority of cancers occurring in individuals over the age of 65 against the backdrop of an expanding aging population, there is an urgent need to integrate areas of clinical care, geriatrics, and behavioral medicine. The labs work in this area has focused on the use of technology (electronic health records EHRs) and patient portals to create functional vulnerability risk scores to help clinicians make treatment decisions.  Additionally, we are working on development and refinement of patient reported outcome (PRO) derived geriatric assessment tool.  Lastly, our group has begun to examine SDOH predictors of accelerated aging (epigenetic age clocks and frailty) and potential psychosocial and behavioral moderators.  Click here for our recent publications and news related to this work.