When data on epidemiology and pathophysiology are analyzed, aging is usually perceived as a process that results form the combined influence of constitutional or so-called "genetic" factors, life-style associated factors and external events. Going into more detail of the understanding of these multiple interconnections requires synergy between many areas of molecular, cellular or biomedical experimental biology or biology more generally dedicated to the study of systems modeling aging and cancer. This is the goal that IRCAN (Institute of Research on Cancer and Aging in Nice) has set for itself.
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