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Planet Cancer: A Community of Young Adults With Cancer

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Heidi Adams

There are more of us young adults with cancer than you think. We are the statistical outliers, unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer between the age of 15 and 39, who come into your office, week after week, and scan the room—consciously or unconsciously—for people our own age. More likely than not, we won't see anyone else.

We'll toss the brochure about support groups because it's written for our 70-year-old grandmas. We'll wonder why you don't have Internet access in your waiting room. We'll ask if we can delay chemo to attend a bachelor party in Vegas. And, after months . . . [Click for More]