Anderson C, et al. – In this study involving adolescents and young adults (AYAs) who received diagnoses of cancer, researchers evaluated the risk of death attributable to noncancer causes using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (242,940 women, 158,347 men). They also focused on the differences by race/ethnicity and other features. With respect to noncancer mortality following AYA cancer, a 10-year cumulative incidence of 2% and 5% was reported for all cancer types combined among women and men, respectively. The investigators found that noncancer mortality after AYA cancer was highest among non-Hispanic black survivors or survivors who live in the South or in rural counties. Non-Hispanic black AYAs also exhibited higher mortality rates due to cardiovascular and infectious diseases.