For adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 29, the number increases to 290 losses each year and is more frequent with young men. These losses are made up mostly of leukemia, brain and central nervous system cancers; and bone cancer. Most cancers in the young adult and adolescent age groups consist of cancers with good survivability rates if caught early, including thyroid cancers, testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and melanoma.

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