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Scope of the Workshop
As cancer risk increases with age, it can be
expected that the increase of people affected by the disease will
augment proportional to the growing number of elderly in most
populations. It therefore seems to be a necessity to unravel the
molecular mechanisms of the causal relationship between aging and
cancer.
Several factors and molecular pathways,
implicated in the phenomenon of aging, have been characterized in
the last decade: telomeres and telomerase, apoptosis and its
regulators, cancer predisposition genes, premature aging syndromes,
genomic instability, epigenetic changes, extra-cellular matrix, etc.
All of the listed features are also playing major
roles in the promotion or suppression of carcinogenesis,
respectively. It is the goal of this workshop to contribute to the
dissection of the molecular pathways of aging and cancer and to
expose their intersections.
History of Geneva Aging
Workshops
Started in September
2000, each Geneva Aging Workshop is dedicated to a special
aging-related theme:
1st Geneva Aging Workshop: Phagocytes, Inflammation, and Aging, 2000
Organizer Karl-Heinz Krause
Report:
Exp Gerontol. 2001 Feb;36(2):373-81
2nd Geneva Aging Workshop: Heart Failure, Cell Therapy, and
Aging, 2001
Organizer Marisa Jaconi
3rd Geneva Aging Workshop: Cancer, Apoptosis, and Aging, 2002
Organizer Irmgard
Irminger-Finger
Report:
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2003 Jun 5;1653(1):41-5
Official
publications of the 3rd Geneva Aging Workshop in
The International
Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Directed Issue on Molecular
and Cellular Mechanisms of Aging.
Volume 34, no. 11:
Edited by I. Irminger-Finger and C. Benz
4th Geneva Aging
Workshop: Cancer and Aging at the Crossroad, 2004
Organizer Irmgard
Irminger-Finger
Contributions from
Workshop participants will be published in The International Journal
of Biochemistry & Cell Biology as Directed Issue on Aging and
Cancer
at the Crossroads.
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