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Front. Public Health
Sec. Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1427987

Disaster Response and Elderly Cancer Care in Super-Aged Societies: Insights from the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake in Oku-Noto, Japan

Provisionally accepted
Ayu Yasui Ayu Yasui 1,2*Seiichi Kinoshita Seiichi Kinoshita 3Michioki Endo Michioki Endo 4Yudai Kaneda Yudai Kaneda 5Ryo Ikeguchi Ryo Ikeguchi 6Chika Yamamoto Chika Yamamoto 7Toshiki Abe Toshiki Abe 7Tianchen Zhao Tianchen Zhao 7Toyoaki Sawano Toyoaki Sawano 1,7Kenji Gonda Kenji Gonda 1,2Masaharu Tsubokura Masaharu Tsubokura 7Hiroyuki Beniya Hiroyuki Beniya 8Akihiko Ozaki Akihiko Ozaki 1,2
  • 1 Tokiwakai Jyoban Hospital, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
  • 2 Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Tokiwakai Jyoban Hospital, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
  • 3 Municipal Wajima Hospital, Wajima, Japan
  • 4 Hyogo Prefectural Awaji Medical Center, Sumoto, Japan
  • 5 Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
  • 6 Katsuyama Orange Clinic, Katsuyama City, Japan
  • 7 Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
  • 8 Other, Fukui City, Japan

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    Keywords: Elderly cancer patients, Super-aged society, Disaster Medicine, disaster preparedness, Oncology care

    Received: 05 May 2024; Accepted: 24 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Yasui, Kinoshita, Endo, Kaneda, Ikeguchi, Yamamoto, Abe, Zhao, Sawano, Gonda, Tsubokura, Beniya and Ozaki. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ayu Yasui, Tokiwakai Jyoban Hospital, Fukushima, 973-8403, Fukushima, Japan

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