Notícias Magazine // Onset of Rare Diseases at an Adult Age. Why?

Portugal has about 600 thousand people living with rare diseases, about 30% are adults. In the framework of the world Rare Disease Day, which is on February 28, the journal Notícias Magazine spoke with Herlander Marques, researcher of the BioOncoSim group of CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, and a doctor of the Oncology Service at the Hospital de Braga.

“In adults, diseases that increase incidence with age arise from accumulation of genetic errors during cell division, as in cancers, or degenerative diseases resulting from altered cell membrane composition, from accumulation of toxic metabolism products or from unknown reasons, such as rare diseases of the central nervous system and the immune system,” the principal investigator explained to NM.

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