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Common cancers in adolescents
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Common cancers in adolescents

Abstract

Adolescence, spanning 15-19 years of age, is a time of developmental transition from childhood to adult life. The spectrum of cancers affecting this age group reflects a similar transition. The common malignant diseases of childhood - leukemias, lymphomas, tumors of the central nervous system and embryonal solid tumors (such as nephroblastoma and neuroblastoma) - are replaced in relative frequency by sarcomas of bone and soft tissue, and tumors …

Authors

Barr RD

Journal

Cancer Treatment Reviews, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 597–602

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

November 2007

DOI

10.1016/j.ctrv.2006.11.003

ISSN

0305-7372