Yes, but my impression is the age factor has been mostly thought of as time to have acquired more damage, not necessarily aging as a normal and selected for developmental process and that the focus is on the nature of the damage and how the damage leads to cancerous cells and less on how the multitudes of precancerous cells are kept in check for so long.
Ah. The joy of google scholar! Here we go. “Aging, immunity and cancer” Current Opinion in Immunology 2004, 16:151–156
I heard an interesting interview with a cancer expert recently, though now of course I can’t remember who it was, where I heard it, or what show it was on. Anyway, the thrust of his point was that in the future, we may very well need to change how we think about cancer and start to see it as a more normal thing that inevitably pops up, so that as we get used bad eyes, bad hips, and wrinkles, we may also need to start getting used to just having a little bit of cancer as a regular thing.
Supporting this is the fact that many tumors secrete signals that actively suppress tumors in other parts of the body, so that when the main tumor is removed, you sometimes find a bunch of other little tumors popping up around the body.