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Unique characteristics of adolescent and young adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, breast cancer, and colon cancer.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 20 Apr 2011
Tricoli James V, Seibel Nita L, Blair Donald G, Albritton Karen, Hayes-Lattin Brandon
Abstract excerpt
Each year in the United States, nearly 70 000 individuals between the ages of 15 and 40 years are diagnosed with cancer. Although overall cancer survival rates among pediatric and older adult patients have increased in recent decades, there has been little improvement in survival of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients since 1975 when collected data became adequate to evaluate this issue. In 2006, the...
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