Children affected by radiation exposure therapy before the age of five years is known to have affected the risk of tumor in the brain or center of nervous system some years later. Data was obtained from research on children who survive from cancer during childhood. Nerve tumor type that often found in children, namely meningiomas and gliomas, which are generally found in the brain and other parts also.

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Approximately 1% of the total cancer in children age who are able to survive over time in many years will be affected by tumor in the nerve system if they get radiation exposure. Highest risk for cancer is exposed to the second time (cancer in the nervous system) for children who undergo radiation therapy at very young age have the possibility to develop into cancer in the brain.

A study involving 14,361 people with cancer at the age of the children who survive after five years freed from cancer, of which some 116 children suffering from cancer years later, the nerve. As many as 40 people suffering from gliomas among intermittent nine years after the first free of cancer at children ag,e and 66 of them suffering from cancer meningiomas after the lapse of 17 years declared cured of first cancer at the children age.

Healing with the way radiation is known to have a risk six-fold to cause the occurrence of glioma and tenfold for the affected meningioma. Exposed to the risk of cancer on the nervous will increase in line with dose of radiation

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therapy used for healing from the first cancer they suffered.

However, the researchers concluded that the need for further observation of children able to survive from cancer at a young age, especially those undergoing radiation therapy to be guided or early detection of the type of cancer that will strike next.