Adolescent And Young Adult Cancer

More than one-fourth of adolescents and young adults with cancer who wished to die at home did not attain this goal, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

In this video, Annick Desjardins, MD, professor of neurosurgery, professor of neurology and member of the Duke Cancer Institute, discusses recent advancements in the treatment of brain tumors.

A program designed to better meet the needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer helped ensure more of them had access to guideline-concordant care, according to study findings.

Suicide rates for individuals diagnosed with cancer increased over the past 2 decades, according to results of a retrospective study.

Inherited variants in DNA repair genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 may increase risk for multiple myeloma, according to results of a retrospective study.

Incidence rates for 17 different cancer types increased for successively younger generations in the United States during the past century.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual survivors of adolescent and young cancer are twice as likely to develop chronic health conditions than their heterosexual counterparts, according to a study published in Cancer.

Healio spoke with Nikki Yuill, LCSW, and Michelle Rajotte, LMSW, the director and associate director of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Information Resource Center, about the importance of supportive care in young adults with leukemia.

Female adolescent and young adult cancer survivors reported higher rates of perceived infertility risk and frequently overestimated or underestimated their risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Pediatric-inspired protocols and hyper-CVAD conferred comparable survival for adolescents and young adults with Philadelphia chromosome-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to study results.