One of the triumphs of modern medicine is that children diagnosed with cancer today have an 85 percent chance of surviving at least five years.
That is up from a rate of about 50 percent a generation ago.
But survival brings new challenges.
NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports on the unique needs of young people as part of the series,
Life After Diagnosis.
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