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The unique needs of young cancer survivors are often overlooked

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:10:26
Publish Date: 2024-12-11 20:57:38
Description: One of the triumphs of modern medicine is that children diagnosed with cancer today have an 85 percent chance of surviving at least five years.

That is up from a rate of about 50 percent a generation ago.

But survival brings new challenges.

NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports on the unique needs of young people as part of the series, Life After Diagnosis.

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