Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Basic

This Wild Card came from: 
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD

The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card: 
Theme 1 - Health

The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card: 
Transnational research on other major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, rare diseases, etc.

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2050+

Wild Card's description: 

Due to a breakthrough in the stemm cell therapy, a cure for different kinds of cancer is developed. Longer life expectancy and higher quality of life is reached. Thereby the aging of the population is taking place even faster. Social systems are overburdened.