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How can a doctor know if a tumor is pediatric?
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Age: "pediatric" refers to the age of the patient, not the type of cancer. Typically, "pediatric" refers to health care in the first 18 years of life, although some will place the limit at 16 and some will argue that aspects of unique care warrant the upper limit at 25 years. There are certain cancers that are more common in children, so the field of pediatric oncology is somewhat different.
Answered 1/20/2014
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