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Read an old Larry Niven story where he used this idea. Back in the 1900's scientists theorized that aging was caused by garbage building up in the cells. If you transported and left the garbage behind your body would revert to a younger stage without memory loss.
I don't accept the premise -- the pattern is read on transport, yes? Rather than a fixed record of one's composition. Therefore, the only aging you won't be doing is for the duration of the transport process itself. Chump change.
They regularly allude to the idea of "pattern buffers" that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.
Like how Scotty sat for decades in the transporter buffer. How the doctors kid in strange new worlds was stashed in the transporter buffer most of the time.
Multiple TNG references using "last transport" as a reference point for Crusher to talk about mysterious space sickness of the day.
This sort of teleportation also effectively kills you, right? Once you are molecularly demolished, your direct stream of consciousness stops, while "you" who steps out of a teleportation machine in a destination point is your perfect copy with implanted memories.