Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology in the United States: A Specialty in Its Late Adolescence
@article{Shaw2015AdolescentAY, title={Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology in the United States: A Specialty in Its Late Adolescence}, author={Peter H Shaw and D. Reed and N. Yeager and B. Zebrack and S. Castellino and A. Bleyer}, journal={Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology}, year={2015}, volume={37}, pages={161–169} }
Over the last 30 years, it has become apparent that oncology patients ages 15 to 39 have not reaped the same rewards of improved survival that we have seen in younger and older patients. As a result, in 2006 the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Progress Review Group convened and examined the factors that impact the care of the 70,000 new cases per year (approximately 7% of all new cases) in the United States and published their findings. The reasons for inferior survival gains are of… Expand
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