Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations

PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze cancer pattern among adolescents and young adults (AYA) in a tertiary care center in North India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study from January 2011 to December 2014 was undertaken on AYA cancer patients (aged 15–39 years). RESULTS: Totally 1077 cases...

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Autores principales: Kakkar, Neha, Gupta, Ajay, Sharma, Neeraj Kumar, Agarwal, Prachi, Kaur, Jaspreet
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29404301
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sajc.sajc_263_16
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author Kakkar, Neha
Gupta, Ajay
Sharma, Neeraj Kumar
Agarwal, Prachi
Kaur, Jaspreet
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description PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze cancer pattern among adolescents and young adults (AYA) in a tertiary care center in North India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study from January 2011 to December 2014 was undertaken on AYA cancer patients (aged 15–39 years). RESULTS: Totally 1077 cases of AYA cancers were identified for analyzing the frequency and pattern of cancer distribution. The most common cancer was head and neck (32%) followed by breast (14.2%). The distribution pattern was observed to be varying in different age groups with lymphoma, leukemia, bone tumors, and sarcomas in adolescents while carcinomas being more frequent in young adults. CONCLUSION: Cancer distribution patterns are distinct among AYA in terms of epidemiology and biology.
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spelling pubmed-57636332018-02-05 Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations Kakkar, Neha Gupta, Ajay Sharma, Neeraj Kumar Agarwal, Prachi Kaur, Jaspreet South Asian J Cancer ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze cancer pattern among adolescents and young adults (AYA) in a tertiary care center in North India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study from January 2011 to December 2014 was undertaken on AYA cancer patients (aged 15–39 years). RESULTS: Totally 1077 cases of AYA cancers were identified for analyzing the frequency and pattern of cancer distribution. The most common cancer was head and neck (32%) followed by breast (14.2%). The distribution pattern was observed to be varying in different age groups with lymphoma, leukemia, bone tumors, and sarcomas in adolescents while carcinomas being more frequent in young adults. CONCLUSION: Cancer distribution patterns are distinct among AYA in terms of epidemiology and biology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5763633/ /pubmed/29404301 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sajc.sajc_263_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 The South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers
Kakkar, Neha
Gupta, Ajay
Sharma, Neeraj Kumar
Agarwal, Prachi
Kaur, Jaspreet
Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title_full Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title_fullStr Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title_full_unstemmed Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title_short Adolescents and young adults: A study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from North India: Epidemiological considerations
title_sort adolescents and young adults: a study of distribution of cancer at ages 15–39 years in a tertiary care hospital from north india: epidemiological considerations
topic ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29404301
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sajc.sajc_263_16
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