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Article: First generation of childhood cancer survivors reaches adulthood to celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day June 5. (at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
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- May 26, 1988
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FIRST GENERATION OF CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS REACHES
ADULTHOOD TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL CANCER SURVIVORS DAY JUNE 5
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The first generation of long-term childhood cancer survivors is reaching adulthood now as the United States gets set to observe the first National Cancer Survivors Day (June 5), according to a pediatric cancer researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
For 1,300 young men and women around the country, that day will call for special celebration and thanksgiving because their cancer has been in remission for 10 to 20 years, said Dr. Elizabeth I. Thompson, who ...