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A US study has found five-year survival rates for US adolescents and young adults with cancer has improved from 1975 to 2005. However, improvement rates were linked to cancers such as leukeamia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, CNS tumours, melanoma and other skin cancers, breast and kidney cancers, while other cancers did not improve.

Queensland researchers have discovered a particular combination of common cancer treatments can have an exponentially more beneficial effect.

 
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ABC News • Mar 9, 2020  16:50
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Small Caps • Mar 9, 2020  0:0
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WAtoday.com.au (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Mar 6, 2020  11:9
For researcher Fiona Simpson, the fight against cancer is personal, and she hopes to land a knockout blow with a...
results. Professor Simpson has spent the past decade on this research, driven by the death of her mother from cancer in...
 
The Medical News • Mar 4, 2020  8:44
The five-year survival rate for adolescents and young adults with cancer has significantly improved from 1975 to 2005 in the United States...
Study: Five-year survival rate for adolescents and young adults with cancer has improved