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Can teenagers get cancer what does the statistics say?
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Of course: Any person, at any age, can get cancer, can you be more specific, rates usually go by the type of cancer. Among teenagers in the US the rate overall is less than 1% for all types, with an expected 5000 new cases yearly of the entire population
Answered 3/18/2017
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