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Introduction; Part I. Epidemiology: 1. Epidemiology of aging LodovicoBalducci and William B. Ershler; 2. Epidemiology of anemia: older adultsKushang V. Patel and Jack M. Guralnik; 3. Cancer in the older person: acomprehensive approach Oscar A. Cepeda, Julie K. Gammack and John E. Morley;4. From fitness to frailty: toward a nosologic classification of the olderaged person Lodovico Balducci and Claudia Beghe; Part II. Hemopoiesis: 5.Stem cell exhaustion and aging Gary Van Zant; 6. Hemopoieticmicro-environment and age David N. Haylock and Susan K. Nilsson; 7.Replicative senescence, aging, and cancer Rita Effros; 8. Qualitative changesof hemopoiesis France Laurencet and Gilbert Zulian; 9. Aging and hemopoieticstress Lodovico Balducci and Cheryl Hardy; 10. Immunoglobulin response andaging Yuping Deng and Stefan Gravenstein; 11. Biological and clinicalsignificance of monoclonal gammopathy Arati V. Rao and Harvey J. Cohen; PartIII. Anemia of Aging: 12. Erythropoietin and aging Andrew S. Aartz; 13. Ironand aging E. Nemeth and Tomas Ganz; 14. Prevalence and mechanism of B12deficiency Sally P. Stabler; 15. The consequences of anemia Luigi Ferrucciand Dan L. Longo; 16. The pathogenesis of late-life anemia Bindu Kanapuru andWilliam B. Ershler; 17. Treatment of late-life anemia William B. Ershler;Part IV. Hematological Malignancies and Aging: 18. Cancer chemotherapy in theolder person Lodovico Balducci; 19. Acute myeloid leukemia in the elderlyMagda Elkabani and Jeffrey Lancet; 20. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia inelderly patients: diagnosis and therapy Salvatore Bruno, Femina Mazzella andOscar Ballester; 21. Multiple myeloma Todd J. Alekshun and Melissa Alsina;22. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Nicole Jacobi and Bruce A. Peterson; 23. Unusuallymphomas in the elderly Youssef Gamal, Samuel Kerr and Thomas P. Loughran;24. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the elderly Alexander S. D. Spiers; 25.Polycythemia vera and idiopathic myelofibrosis in the elderly Jerry L.Spivak; Part V. Disorders of Hemostasis in the Elderly: 26. Acquiredhemophilia in the elderly F. Baudo and F. de Cataldo; 27. Blood coagulationand aging Jozef Vermylen and Marc F. Hoylaerts; 28. Platelet disorders in theelderly Laura Terranova, Giancarla Gerli and Marco Cattaneo; 29.Gene-environment interactions and vascular risk in the elderly Daniela Mari;30. Antithrombotic therapy: guidelines for the elderly Chiara Cerletti, H. J.Schunemann and Giovanni de Gaetano.