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Examples which are commoner in young adults

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Age can be used as an important discriminating factor when considering cancer:

  • examples of cancers that are commonest in younger adults (ie those less than 40 years old)
    • testicular cancer
    • Hodgkin's disease

Note that some tumours occur almost exclusively in children.

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