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time.com > “Care of early-onset cancer patients becomes complex even beyond [medicine],” says Dr. Veda Giri,an oncologist,co-director of Yale Cancer Center’s Early Onset Cancer Program in Connecticut. This spring,the program will launch new services meant to address that very problem. Patients in the program will be contacted by coordinators who can help guide them through issues that commonly affect young-adult patients,from ways to preserve fertility to deciding whether to pursue genetic testing or enroll in a clinical trial. Patients can also participate in support groups others in their age group,in hopes of improving social,mental health. The goal: to “support patients,their families from diagnosis all the way through their cancer journey,beyond into survivorship,” since young adults cured of cancer may have continuing needs for decades to come,Giri says.
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