Weill Cornell Medicine received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop innovative support strategies for an understudied group of cancer patients: adolescents and young adults (AYAs). For these individuals, cancer survival often marks the beginning of lifelong challenges from treatment effects.
Every year, over 80,000 people aged 15 to 39 are diagnosed with cancer. And more than 2...