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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(24):1760-1763; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj517
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Lack of Progress in Teen and Young Adult Cancers Concerns Researchers, Prompts Study

Charlie Schmidt

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Mounting evidence suggests that adolescents and young adults are not getting the best that cancer treatment can offer. Spurred by data showing that cancer mortality rates among adolescents have barely budged for decades, scientists and others have called for heightened efforts to improve their clinical outcomes.

The most recent evidence comes from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, which in April published a monograph claiming that a diagnosis of cancer among adolescents and young adults during the mid-1970s carried a better prognosis relative to other age groups than it does today. Yet since then, cancer mortality rates among this population have mysteriously flattened, while those of children and older adults have steadily improved.

Experts are now trying to determine why young adult cancers haven't made the strides common in other age groups and what can be done about it. A collaboration of the Lance Armstrong . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Evidence Emerges

Attacking Adolescent Cancer

Are Teen Tumors Different?

Children or Adults?


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