Cancer Therapy Can Increase Inflammation, Fatigue, and Cellular Age
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May 25, 2021
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Chronic fatigue and inflammation are debilitating symptoms in patients with cancer. Anti-cancer therapies may alter epigenetic signatures on the DNA contributing to an acceleration of biological processes of aging, greater inflammation and fatigue, a new study finds.
“Your biological age or the epigenetic age might be different from your chronological age. If your epigenetic age is older than your chronological age, you might age faster, [and be more susceptible to] age-associated adverse conditions. If your epigenetic age is younger than your chronological age, you might age slower,” explains Canhua Xiao, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the Emory University School of Nursing, in Atlanta.