brain cancer

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

brain tumor

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.

We can be contagious germs of tuberculosis (TB) if contact with tuberculosis patients. Your child can be in contact with people outside the home because he was already in school.

tuberculosis virus

At home he was not only the contact with the parents and his sisters or brothers, but also possible with the adjuvant, a driver, or others who live in your home.

Immunization against tuberculosis cannot fully guarantee your child will not be exposed to TB. Tuberculosis diagnosis in children sometimes not easy.

You are lucky because the diagnosis done successful. Live therapy is conducted properly. TB drug therapy is available in Indonesia so that the complete success of the therapy is determined more by patient adherence to drink the medicine.

Tuberculosis therapy is done with a combination of anti-tuberculosis (oat) drug treatment, at least for six months. Therapy usually begins with the intensive phase of two months. At this phase of oat is usually given four different and then proceed with further phases of the amount of medicine a little more (usually two).

Please note, the drug, long intensive phase, and duration of therapy depends on the overall situation of the disease. You can ask your child to the doctor about the therapy design.

I am glad you are also concerned about the side effects because the medicine can help your awareness of the possibility of occurrence of these side effects. However, I also hope that you are not too afraid of side effects because oat general side effects are not severe and if there can be overcome. You also need to know only a small part of the oat drink the medication side effects, so that drug side effects problems hopefully not lessen the intention of oat therapy to your child.

tuberculosis on children

Of different types of oat, I will only discuss side effects INH, rifampisin, etambutol, and pirazinamid. INH side effect is hepatitis (liver inflammation), The frequency is low in children. In the adult hepatitis due to INH can range 0.3 to 3 percent. Other side effects are neuropati (feeling of pins in the feet and hands), but usually can be overcome by giving the medicine vitamin B6. While the side effects commonly found in the aberration is rifampisin skin (itching), and hepatitis. Etambutol can cause side effects on the eye, but the frequency is less than 1 percent. However, in the etambutol should do the monitoring. Pirazinamid can also cause side effects on the heart.

In general, if side effects occur, oat suspended or re-used with the dose gradually or replaced. Generally, side effects can be overcome oat and oat therapy can be continued until the patient recovered.

With the attention and support you as a mother, I believe your child will be able to complete the therapy and achieve healing from tuberculosis disease.

However, raising this contention is not entirely true of course. If the cancer can be detected early, the opportunity torecover the greater. In addition, the hope for healing children who have a cancer is relatively large, even up to 100 percent.

As said by Head of Children Hematology of Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) Prof. Djajadiman SpA (K) in Jakarta on Tuesday (15 / 7), cancer in children is quite different from the cancer that attacks adults.

“Cancer can occur in children from birth through age or after the baby. Not like cancer in adults, cancer in children can be cured up to 100 percent if found still in the early stages. But in adults, there is a possibility of cancer recurrence may be more,” Djajadiman explains.

brain cancer, type of cancer that often detected in children

He added that cases of cancer in children at this time to reach about 3 percent of all cancer disease incidence. In general, there are several types of cancer that attacks the children, such as blood cancers (leukemia), brain cancer, cancer of the ball (retinoblastoma), lymph gland cancer, cancer nerve, muscle gland cancer, and bone cancer.

“But if sorted from the many, only two types of cancer are most commonly found, ie, leukemia and cancer of the ball,” he explained.

According to the World Children’s Cancer Organization, the case leukemia reach 25-35 percent of all childhood cancer. Figures reported incident occurred in the highest age of 3-6 years and more the girls. Meanwhile, retinoblastoma is cancer that is found in many developing countries in children aged under 5 years old. Mortality due to this disease reaches 50-60 per cent as most people come late or are in advanced stages.

Difficult to recognize

About symptoms of early occurrence of cancer, explains Prof. Djajadiman, cancer in children is quite difficult to recognize because they often do not feel or can not told about the symptom.

“However, there are common signs that should be awarded by parents. With the symptoms of this, parents can more consult it to the doctor,” he said.

For the blood cancer or leukemia, Prof. Djajadiman information, symptoms that appear normal child is less enthusiastic, listless, and weak due to a decrease in hemoglobin level. Other symptoms are fever with a high frequency due to the decreasing rate of white blood cells and the emergence of spots colored blue or red due to bleeding, and stomach harden the heart and spleen swell.

“Because the process occurs in the spine, is usually also accompanied by pain in the spine in the night. Sometimes there is also a bump arise in the neck,” he said.

While the symptoms of retinoblastoma in children, Prof. Djayadiman continued, the more difficult because more is known symptoms do not appear initially. Symptoms are usually marked with the white dot in the eyes of black. If you already have the white belly spot, and will reflect light into the eye or is also often called the cat eyes.

“So because there is light reflect, such as the tumor is shining. But this indicates that this cancer is not too early,” explained.

He further explained, when the symptoms are found in the child’s parents should immediately take them to hospital or other health care facilities so that doctors can help to ensure that their children fell ill of cancer.

cancer in children can be cured up to 100 percent if found still in the early stages

Still not sure

About the causes of cancer in children, Prof. Djajadiman states until now have not known exactly by the experts. This fact also causes the child’s cancer prevention efforts difficult.

“But that is the cause of the influence of genetic factors, such as deviation or defect genes that cause cell growth were not restrained.

This is a cause of cancer prevented children difficult. Because clearly different from the cancer on the adult emergence can be a factor because of the behavior and lifestyle,” he explained .

Maybe a day later when it can be known, Prof. Djajadiman holds, cancer in children can be overcome with the methods of therapy. “The therapy may be in the form of gene therapy and not a therapy for prevention,” he said.