Adolescent and young adult oncology, version 2.2014

Peter F Coccia1, Alberto S Pappo, Jessica Altman

  • 1From 1Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center; 2St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 3Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; 4City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; 5Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; 6The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; 7Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center; 8UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; 9Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine; 10Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 11Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; 12Roswell Park Cancer Institute; 13Stanford Cancer Institute; 14Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 15The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; 16Moffitt Cancer Center; 17Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah; 18The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; 19Fox Chase Cancer Center; 20Duke Cancer Institute; 21University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center; 22University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center; and 23National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

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