Any form of breast cancer treatment appears to speed the aging of the recipient's cells, a new study finds. "For the first time, we're showing that the [aging] signals we once thought were driven by chemotherapy are also present in women undergoing radiation and surgery," said study lead author Judith Carroll .

Medical Watch Digest for Oct 8. Breast cancer speeds up biological aging A breast cancer battle ages. It doesn’t matter the type of treatment: chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, patients with breast cancer experience an increased expression of aging markers.

The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that some treatments like chemotherapy and radiation can speed up the biological aging process in breast cancer survivors. Most of us have,