Barrie, Peter Pan []. There is that space in time between childhood and adulthood, quite unlike the other two. It is ungainly enough under normal circumstances, but particularly unsettling when disrupted by disease. This year, roughly 70, young people between the ages of 15 and 39 years, the now called adolescent and young adult AYA population, will be diagnosed with cancer, according to the statistics of the National Cancer Institute. Those in the AYA age group often remark that they are misunderstood. Nowhere is this more true than when diagnosed with cancer, of which lymphoma is one of the most common types.