Mia Hamant , the University of Washington’s (UW) star goalkeeper, died at the age of 21 from a rare kidney cancer, the school confirmed Thursday.

Scott Tykodi , associate professor at the UW and Fred Hutch campus, an oncologist, and specialist in treating kidney cancer patients, explained why the aggressive cancer struck someone at such a young age.

“Kidney Cancer, that’s a kind of a general, casual term, but what we typically see in adults, what’s called renal cell carcinoma has several different subtypes, and there are a few rare types that are enriched in a much younger patient population, something called a medullary renal cell carcinoma and a translocation renal cell carcinoma that often appears in patients in their late teens, 20s, early 30s,” he told KIRO Newsradio. “And thos

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