Since the first edition of Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults was published in 2007, there have been numerous milestones in the journey of adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology. These include an expansion of the age range from 15–29 to 15–39 years and a commensurate increase in ...
Adolescent and young adults Quality of life Hematopoietic cell transplantation Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplantation INTRODUCTION The National Cancer Institute defines adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients as 15 to 39 years of age [1]. Roughly 70,000 AYA patients are ...
Previous work assessing the global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer has focused on incidence and mortality, and has occasionally used a more restrictive age range than presented in this study. International adolescent and young adult cancer incidence patterns across time have been reported ...
Femicide studies have generally focused on women 18 years and older or have included a subset of adolescent girls within an age range (eg, 15 to 24 years).20,21 Some studies have demonstrated that most adolescent femicide victims are killed by an intimate partner or someone they know, either...
The putative link between adolescent and young adult depression was not supported. Oppositional defiant disorder was singular in being part of the developmental history of a wide range of young adult disorders. More than three-quarters of young adults with psychiatric disorders first had a diagnosis ...
We sought to determine whether the interval between menarche and age of first sexual intercourse is associated with subsequent human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and if so, whether the association is independent of the age of first sexual intercourse. Female university students completed a survey ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the possible association between the disease itself and germ cell damage in HD female patients, before treatment. The ovarian cortex from nine adult (age range 18–37) and four adolescent (age range 14–16) untreated females with HD was processed by ...
A US study found that younger age and cancer type influenced the chance of AYA being referred to a pediatric centre [48]. Cancers such as ALL were more likely to be treated in a pediatric centre; thyroid and other carcinomas were more frequently treated at an adult centre. An AYA’s ...
Temporal trends and social inequities in adolescent and young adult mental health disorders in Catalonia, Spain: a 2008–2022 primary care cohort study Ana Lozano-Sánchez, Enric Aragonès, Tomàs López-Jiménez, Matthew Bennett, Stella Evangelidou, Esther Francisco, Myriam García, Estel Malgosa, ...
Access to Age-Sensitive Care There is a range of complex issues related to the location and organization of care for this unique population. A large number of AYA patients with pediatric cancers are treated in adult care centers.70 This, combined with the low rate of participation in clinical...