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April 1-7 is the 5th annual National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week. See this link for details. Since testicular cancer is the most common cancer among young men, this is of special interest to our forum members.
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Scott, [email protected]
right inguinal orchiectomy 6/5/2003 > nonseminoma, stage I > surveillance > L-RPLND 6/24/2005 for recurrence, suspected teratoma but found seminoma, stage II > chylous ascites until 9/2005 > surveillance and "all clear" since
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What an amazing amount of information. Thanks for your efforts to share! Russell's Mom, Sharon
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As I was walking into work yesterday, I noticed that the Dana-Farber had a booth set up for Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week. I hung out for a while and was recruited to help out doing advocacy work there! I guess they liked the fact that a scientist that works and gets treated there could bring a fresh perspective.
I was talking to my boss about it, and he was psyched that I was partaking on this. He also noted a very interesting (if not sobering) fact. He recently was at Grand Rounds at Mass General Hospital, and he noted a very startling statistic: while cancer cure rates in the age ranges of 1-18 and 35-75 have gone up, those on the age range of 18-35 have remained static over the course of the last 20-30 years. It seems that the period when teenagers leave the nest to go off to college up until the time when they get married, is when people have a tendency to neglect their health the most. There are plenty of explanations for this phenomenon, which is what makes our job as advocates more important. Health education is key, and I bet it's this type of education that will help increase the long term effects of curing more young people from cancer."Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Bueller
11.22.06 -Dx the day before Thanksgiving
12.09.06 -Rt I/O; 100% seminoma, multifocal; Stage I-A; Surveillance; Six years out! I consider myself cured.
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Addendum to previous post
I found some postings on the Dana-Farber Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patient Resources website on "camps" for young cancer survivors. Since TC hits mostly younger guys, I figure this would be of use to some of the younger folk in the Forum. At the bottom of this page, there are links to several summer camps for cancer survivors in the 15-39 age range. I'll post more of these as they come along. Cheers,"Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Bueller
11.22.06 -Dx the day before Thanksgiving
12.09.06 -Rt I/O; 100% seminoma, multifocal; Stage I-A; Surveillance; Six years out! I consider myself cured.
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