A new study conducted by Kaiser Permanente in Southern California has unveiled a correlation between types of cancer treatment and the risk of developing health problems in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. According to study leader Dr Chun Chao, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors have been an understudied group, however, the risk of this age group developing one of 26 health conditions after completion of treatment was considerable: "after 10 years, 40% of AYA [adolescent and young adult] cancer survivors had developed two or more...conditions, compared with only 20% of people...with not history of cancer."
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