title: [Psychosocial and developmental outcomes of TYAs with cancer: Are there any specific characteristics for the young adults?]
abstract: During the last few years, specific support devices and even dedicated units for teenagers and young adults (TYAs - patients grouped in the 15-25 years age group) appeared in oncology. If the existing literature review allows identifying many written work related to the experience of cancer during adolescence, resources about "young adults" are not only far less abundant, but rarely give the definition of what is a "young adult". Based on this observation, it appears necessary, at this stage of our practice, to question the definition and psychosocial outcomes of those psychiatrists and psychologists also call "young adults". Are they so different compared to teenagers? Do they have their own specificities? Based on the analysis of the general literature, we will seek to define the highlights of this moment of life and to identify their specific psychosocial and developmental outcomes. Thus, we will be able to study more accurately the experience of young adults facing cancer and the associated psychological side effects. Based on this analysis, we will present the issues which seemed to be specific in the psychological support of young adults and their relatives.
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, dispositif adolescents et jeunes adultes atteints de cancer, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France. Electronic address: tanguy.leprince@lyon.unicancer.fr.
authors.forename: Tanguy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leprince
authors.affiliation: Unité de psycho-oncologie, équipe des adolescents et jeunes adultes, Gustave-Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sauveplane
authors.affiliation: ATER, university Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, centre de recherches psychanalyse, médecine et société, EA 3522, associée à l'EA 3518, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ricadat
authors.affiliation: Institut Curie, département d'oncologie pédiatrique, adolescents et jeunes adultes, unité de psycho-oncologie, 75248 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Étienne
authors.initials: É
authors.lastname: Seigneur
authors.affiliation: Département de pédiatrie, unité de psycho-oncologie, Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Gabrielle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marioni
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005190:Family; D006296:Health Services; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Aspects psychosociaux; Cancer; Jeunes-adultes; Psychosocial outcomes; Young adults