Seminars in Oncology
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 460-467 , October 2009

Relative Lack of Conditional Survival Improvement in Young Adults With Cancer

  • Archie Bleyer

      Affiliations

    • St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR
    • Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Archie Bleyer, MD, St. Charles Medical Center, 2500 NE Neff Rd, Bend, OR 97701
    • ,
  • Mehee Choi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
    • ,
  • C. David Fuller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • Graduate Division of Radiological Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • ,
  • Charles R. Thomas Jr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
    • ,
  • Samuel J. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
    • Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

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 A preliminary report of this work was published as an abstract in the 2006 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.Supported in part by the Aflac Foundation.

PII: S0093-7754(09)00139-0

doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2009.07.004

Seminars in Oncology
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 460-467 , October 2009

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