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Extreme longevity likely to rise slowly by the end of the 21st century The number of people who live past the age of 100 has been on the rise for decades, up to nearly half a million people worldwide. There are, however, far fewer "supercentenarians," people who live to age 110 or even longer. The oldest living person, Jeanne Calment of France, was 122 when she died in 1997; currently, the world's oldest person is 118-year-old Kane Tanaka of Japan. Such extreme longevity, according to new research by the University of Washington, likely will continue to rise slowly by the end of this century,...

How Long Can We Live? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/magazine/human-lifespan.html Credit...Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Sections How Long Can We Live? New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet. Credit...Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, . In 1990, not long after Jean-Marie Robine and Michel Allard began conducting a nationwide study of French centenarians, ...

GISuser.com Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections December 18, 2020 By Editor DEC. 15, 2020 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released new population estimates and projections for over 200 countries and areas through the year 2100. These data are available from the redesigned International Data Base (IDB) web tool. The IDB consists of estimates and projections of demographic indicators, including population size and growth (by sex and single year of age up to 100 and over), and components of change (mortality, fertility, and net migration) for 228 countrie...

 E-Mail An international team of scientists, including doctors from the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, in Lisbon, has just published results in the prestigious journal The Lancet Oncology that suggest that the majority of rectal cancer patients may be able, in the not so distant future, to replace aggressive colorectal surgery with a course of radiochemotherapy and few years of close surveillance. All this with a very low probability of seeing their tumour regrow locally or leading to the development of distant metastases later on if they survived the first years after treatment without sign...