Everything you wanted to know about young adults and cancer. But were afraid to ask.

Cancer Study Finds Adolescents Don’t Get Same Access To Latest Treatments As Younger Patients – Science Daily, January 16, 2008

The overall survival rate from cancer now is lower in older adolescents and young adults with cancer than in younger children, in part because of a lack of access to clinical trials nationally for the older age group, according to a study by pediatric oncologists at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

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