Journal article
The distinctive biology of cancer in adolescents and young adults
Abstract
Key PointsThe relative lack of progress in treating cancer in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) is in part due to a lack of appreciation of differences in the biology of malignant diseases in this age group relative to younger and older persons.Molecular, epidemiological and therapeutic outcome comparisons offer clues to this distinctiveness in most of the common cancers of AYAs, including leukaemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, melanoma, and …
Authors
Bleyer A; Barr R; Hayes-Lattin B; Thomas D; Ellis C; Anderson B
Journal
Nature Reviews Cancer, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 288–298
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
4 2008
DOI
10.1038/nrc2349
ISSN
1474-175X