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Children's Hospital designs first cancer unit for young adults

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Children's Hospital designs first cancer unit for young adults

March 15, 2013

http://www.komonews.com/living/health/Hospital-designs-first-cancer-unit-for-young-adults--198271641.html

 

Source - KOMO TV


More children and adults over 30 are surviving cancer diagnoses today than ever before, but teens and young adults have not seen the same advances in treatment. Seattle Children’s Hospital hopes to change that by offering more specialized care to this age group in the country’s first cancer unit specifically designed for young-adult patients.

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