Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has established the Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging.
The mission of GLICA is to apply knowledge about aging across the life span to improve the lives of cancer patients and their families and achieve equity in cancer outcomes.
Jeanne Mandelblatt, a pioneer of gero-oncology, was the inaugural GLICA director.
Multiple components of the healthcare and public health systems are currently under scrutiny. One of them is reportedly the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF: “Task Force”), established in 1984 and managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was created to maintain an ongoing evaluation of disease prevention and screening interventions that...
