"A Progress Review Group, involving the NCI, the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance, identified the need to determine if unique biological and molecular differences underlie adolescent and young adult cancer with respect to prognosis and therapeutic outcome and differentiate it from the disease in younger or older patients."

Read the details of NCI's efforts within the $200 million NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research, and find AYA Oncology as a topic http://challenge.nci.nih.gov/