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  2. Cancer in adolescents and young adults - Wikipedia

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    Cancer in adolescents and young adults is cancer which occurs in those between the ages of 15 and 39. [1] This occurs in about 70,000 people a year in the United States—accounting for about 5 percent of cancers. This is about six times the number of cancers diagnosed in children ages 0–14. [1]

  3. Adolescent and young adult oncology - Wikipedia

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    Adolescent and young adult oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients aged 16–40. Studies have continuously shown that while pediatric cancer survival rates have gone up, the survival rate for adolescents and young adults has remained stagnant.

  4. Childhood cancer - Wikipedia

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    Adolescent and young adult oncology (AYA): AYA is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in adolescents and young adults, often defined as those aged 13–30. Studies have continuously shown that while pediatric cancer survival rates have gone up, the survival rate for adolescents and young ...

  5. Category:Pediatric cancers - Wikipedia

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    This category includes pediatric cancers, (including benign neoplasms) in fetuses, infants, children, teens, and young adults. Note that most pediatric cancers are also rare cancers: see Category:Rare cancers.

  6. Childhood leukemia - Wikipedia

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    Childhood leukemia is leukemia that occurs in a child and is a type of childhood cancer.Childhood leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, accounting for 29% of cancers in children aged 0–14 in 2018. [1]

  7. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    In general, disclosure of the diagnosis is more common than it was in the 20th century, but full disclosure of the prognosis is not offered to many patients around the world. [233] In the United States and some other cultures, cancer is regarded as a disease that must be "fought" to end the "civil insurrection"; a War on Cancer was declared in ...

  8. Category:Television episodes about cancer - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 21:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Epidemiology of cancer - Wikipedia

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    The epidemiology of cancer is the study of the factors affecting cancer, as a way to infer possible trends and causes. The study of cancer epidemiology uses epidemiological methods to find the cause of cancer and to identify and develop improved treatments. This area of study must contend with problems of lead time bias and length time bias ...