An Outline of the OncoAge Consortium

The OncoAge consortium is a scientific interest group focused on the overlap between cancer and aging. Like many factions in the broader aging research community, its members are apparently giving cellular senescence a great deal of their attention these days. Better late than never, I'd say, but this focus is arguably less of an example of scrambling to catch up in their case than for purely aging-focused researchers. After all, the cancer research community studied cellular senescence to a significant degree well prior to the 2011 proof of concept study that finally persuaded gerontologists that accumulation of senescence cells is an important cause of degenerative aging. My usual complaint about this situation is that clear evidence for that position on cellular senescence and aging was out there in plain view for two to three decades prior to that point, and simply dismissed. It wasn't until the SENS movement started to agitate on the topic in the early 2000s that matters started to move forward. Scientists are just as irrational en masse as the rest of humanity, be assured. The current development of senolytics as a rejuvenation therapy could have started twenty years ago, given a world in which different people were in charge of scientific strategy and funding. How many lives has that cost? Chronological age is the most important single risk factor for the development of a variety of cancers and chronic diseases that account for the majority of societal ...
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