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Can you list some sorts of cancer that young teenagers might get?
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Several common ones: Osteosarcoma, ewing's sarcoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hodgkin's, seminoma / dysgerminoma, medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma are the first that come to mind. Wilms and neuroblastoma more affect younger patients but may still appear at age 13-14.
Answered 12/23/2013
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