Derailment: When a Young Adult Gets Cancer

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07/18/23

Young adults face unique psychosocial concerns such as fertility preservation, body image, sexuality, education, insurance issues, employment reintegration and long term effects of treatment. Meet ten young adult survivors living in Southern California and Dr. Leonard Sender, Medical Director of CHOC Children's Cancer Institute and the Director of the Young Adult Cancer Program at the University of California Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Adolescent & Young Adult Oncology. National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is April 3-9, 2011.