Long-term explerience in the management of adolescents and young adults with cancer referred to a regional tertiary center for multidisciplinary care

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Background Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with cancer constitute a heterogeneous group in which improvements in survival rates (OS) have not kept pace with those achieved in younger patients. Methods Retrospective review of AYA (15-29 years) patients with cancer, except leukemias, referred for multidisciplinary treatment (1992-2014). Baseline characteristics, pathological type and stage, 1 st-line treatments and OS were reviewed. Differences between three age groups (15-19, 20-24, 25-29 years) assessed with Chi-square and log-rank tests. A p-value< 0.05 was considered significant. Results 286 patients. Median age 23 years (15-29); 33.1%(15-19 years), 23.6%(20-24 years) and 43.3%(25-29 years). Tumour types (% in age-groups): Paediatric-bone tumours 15.7%(28.7-13.4-7.3), germ-cell tumours (both sexes) 15.5%(11.7-17.9-17.1), adult-type epithelial tumours 14.1%(6.4-10.4-22.0), Hodgkin …

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2016

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