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A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with CancerOverview of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer

A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: Overview of... [For over a decade adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer have been recognised to have specific healthcare challenges. Epidemiological reports in the early 2000s noted that AYA patients had a different spectrum of cancers to that observed in children and older adults, AYAs had poorer outcomes than children with the same malignancies, and that the improvements in cancer survival observed in children and older adults had not been matched in the AYA cancer population. As a result, several countries developed initiatives that brought together clinical service and research needs to develop AYA clinical infrastructure and to deliver programmes of AYA cancer research with a view to improve cancer outcomes in this population.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with CancerOverview of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer

Editors: Chisholm, Julia; Hough, Rachel; Soanes, Louise
McCabe, Martin G.
Springer Journals — Aug 31, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-66172-8
Pages
1 –18
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-66173-5_1
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Abstract

[For over a decade adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer have been recognised to have specific healthcare challenges. Epidemiological reports in the early 2000s noted that AYA patients had a different spectrum of cancers to that observed in children and older adults, AYAs had poorer outcomes than children with the same malignancies, and that the improvements in cancer survival observed in children and older adults had not been matched in the AYA cancer population. As a result, several countries developed initiatives that brought together clinical service and research needs to develop AYA clinical infrastructure and to deliver programmes of AYA cancer research with a view to improve cancer outcomes in this population.]

Published: Aug 31, 2017

Keywords: AYA; Cancer; Adolescent; Teenage; Young adult; Epidemiology; Incidence; Survival

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