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|Podcasts|April 25, 2019
Focusing on Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer
Author(s)Kristie L. Kahl
In this week’s episode, we spoke with a young adult and a child life specialist who discussed the importance of focusing on the needs of AYAs with cancer.
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The middle — an area many adolescent and young adults (AYAs) with cancer find themselves.
While their physical and emotional needs tend to be quite different, many institutions fail to focus on the specific needs of AYAs who don’t fall under either the
In this week’s episode of CURE® Talks Cancer, we spoke with a young adult who was diagnosed with
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