Tufts Medical Center (Boston)

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The Alliance began working with the Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center in 2009 when it commissioned a study to validate the extent to which AYAs diagnosed with cancer faced critical gaps in their diagnosis, active treatment, and follow-up care.  The  findings were sobering.  They confirmed what had begun to expose in the late 1990: AYA cancer patients and cancer survivors faced tragic gaps in all these area and that AYAs continued to have lower cancer survival rates than children and older adults.

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These observations were not new.   Pioneers....{The good news was this phenomenon had been detected in the late 1990's, most notably by Drs. Archie Bleyer, ....Barrr...Reiss....

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In 2013, in partnership with the Tufts Cancer Center, funded the establishment of the Reid R. Sacco AYA Cancer Program and Clinic.  The Alliance continues to provide annual sustaining grants...for growth...exp

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Current state...