Authors:
Haggar FA; Pereira G; Preen DD; Holman CDJ; Einarsdottir K
Authors notes:
PLoS ONE. 2013;8(2):e55630
Keywords:
Cancer, Adolescents, Survival, Mortality, Risk factors
Abstract:
Data are limited on cancer outcomes in adolescents and young adults.
A cancer diagnosis in adolescents and young adults conferred substantial survival decrement.
However, overall outcomes improved over calendar period.
Case fatality varied according to age group, sex, ethnicity, geographical area and residential socioeconomic status.
Tumour subgroups differed substantially in frequency according to age group and sex, and were critical outcome determinants.
Marked progressive calendar-time improvement in overall outcomes was evident. Further research is required to disentangle the contributions of tumour biology and health service factors to outcome disparities between ethno-demographic, geographic and socioeconomic subgroups of adolescents and young adults with cancer