Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog

By Geoff Eaton of Real Time Cancer.

“Each year in Canada, at least 6500 young adults in the age group 15–39 are diagnosed with some form of cancer. The most common malignancies in young females are cancers of the breast, cervix, and ovaries; while in young males testicular cancer is followed by non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For unknown reasons, some malignancies are increasing among young adults of both sexes including cancers of the thyroid, lung, brain, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in young women and testicular cancer in young men. Young adults are also affected by the more common cancers. (read more…)

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