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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Sep 22;121(24):4398–4406. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29669

TABLE 6.

Enrollment of AYAs (Aged 15–39 Years) onto Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Cancer Studies by Diagnosis by Site of Carea

Therapeutic
Non-Therapeutic
Enrolled Not Enrolled P Enrolled Not Enrolled P
Children’s hospital
 Extracranial germ cell tumor 0 (0) 17 (100%) <0.01 7 (41.2%) 10 (58.8%) 0.05
 Lymphoma 3 (10.0%) 27 (90.0%) 10 (33.3%) 20 (66.7%)
 Sarcoma 8 (30.8%) 18 (69.2%) 14 (53.9%) 12 (46.1%)
 Acute leukemia 14 (22.9%) 47 (77.1%) 36 (59.0%) 25 (41.0%)
 Breast carcinoma - - - -
 Other 4 (7.0%) 53 (93.0%) 20 (35.1%) 37 (64.9%)
Adult hospitals (combined)
 Extracranial germ cell tumor 7 (3.1%) 220 (96.9%) <0.01 5 (2.2%) 222 (97.8%) <0.01
 Lymphoma 12 (7.7%) 144 (92.3%) 2 (1.3%) 154 (98.7%)
 Sarcoma 1 (0.7%) 138 (99.3%) 3 (2.2%) 136 (97.8%)
 Acute leukemia 9 (9.7%) 84 (90.3%) 5 (5.4%) 88 (94.6%)
 Breast carcinoma 26 (18.6%) 114 (81.4%) 80 (57.1%) 60 (42.9%)
 Other 20 (2.7%) 733 (97.3%) 105 (13.9%) 648 (86.1%)

Abbreviation: AYAs, adolescents and young adults.

a

Adult cancer hospitals and public hospitals were combined as adult hospitals.