Jul 7, 2008

Attention to children's cancer "as early as 3"

According to medical statistics for children aged 0 to-14 the incidence of malignant tumors of all malignant tumors of 0.6 percent. Although the incidence rate lower, but its high degree of malignancy, the mortality rate of all child mortality 10.7%, has become in addition to accidental injury, the leading cause of death in children.

According to medical statistics for children aged 0 to-14 the incidence of malignant tumors of all malignant tumors of 0.6 percent. Although the incidence rate lower, but its high degree of malignancy, the mortality rate of all child mortality 10.7%, has become in addition to accidental injury, the leading cause of death in children. As we inadequate understanding of cancer on children, the majority of patients with atypical symptoms, the children complained of poor children and professional tumors of the lack of doctors and other reasons, makes children's cancer often can not be found even been misdiagnosed early, this is not child cancer patients in early The timely and correct diagnosis and treatment, resulting in poor prognosis of the important factors.

Children's cancer incidence rate by the order for the white blood and central nervous system cancer, lymphoma, various cells of (common for neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, hepatoblastoma and retinoblastoma, etc.) , Teratoma and rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, and so on. They can occur in the children of all ages, some malignant tumors such as neuroblastoma can be derived from embryonic stage, that is, in the neonatal period have been discovered. The vast majority of these tumors when embryos from pregnant mothers in the embryo of the non-epithelial cells, such tumors in the deeper parts of the body, with the exception of individual tumor, (such as neuroblastoma specific nerve enolase) There is no effective Population screening method, so that more difficult. Although the application of molecular techniques in recent years in the diagnosis of some reports, but still in the stage and is not yet widely used in clinical. Therefore, the diagnosis of cancer in children of parents still have to rely on early detection of diseases clues and a specialist clinical diagnosis.

The parents of children should maintain high vigilance following symptoms: (1) general performance: a longer-term fever, in particular the anti-viral and antibiotic treatment short-term invalid after the fever; obvious short-term weight loss, body weight increased or decreased; weakness, Daijuan; continually increase the anemia, looking pale; endocrine disorders, such as obesity or not the symmetry, such as early puberty. (2) partial performance: mainly localized pain, mass and mass oppression of the surrounding organs produce a series of symptoms. Early detection of skin tumors more easily, but in the hidden parts of the body cavity mass parents to early detection. At this moment the parents should pay attention to whether there is a tumor suppression of the symptoms of adjacent organs, such as mediastinal tumors can lead to difficulty in breathing or Bieqi; abdominal tumor often oppressed gastrointestinal tract have nausea, vomiting and intestinal obstruction symptoms or pelvic tumor sacrococcygeal Can lead to the abnormal urination or defecation.

Once the parents have found that the abnormal situation should be promptly to a child cancer specialist in children's cancer hospital doctors to check, timely diagnosis, so as not to delay condition. Children of cancer patients non-invasive inspection, including inspection, that is, the suffering of children with no checks, such as X-ray film, B-chao, CT, and other family members more receptive to check; invasive inspection, the children are suffering of the inspection , Such as lumbar puncture, bone marrow puncture, Huotizuzhi examination, and other family members are often difficult to accept, but sometimes only through these checks to obtain a scientific diagnosis. Make a correct diagnosis early on developed a reasonable treatment programmes, improve treatment and survival rate is very critical. As early Nephroblastoma (Ⅰ period) the cure rate as high as 90 percent, and the time of diagnosis has been the transfer of advanced (Ⅳ period) the patient's cure rate is only about 50 percent. Children and adults of different tumors, many diseases in early life can be completely cured.

Early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment is to improve the efficacy and children's cancer survival rate important link. We make the following suggestions to parents: (1) information on the children's cancer popular science knowledge to improve the vigilance of the disease, if the conditions of children to regular medical oncology (2) carefully observed the child's physical condition, unusual time to Please specialist children's cancer hospital doctor checkups; (3) Do not rely on non-specialists in the diagnosis, (4) Do not refuse to doctors when necessary for children to have a check, (5) Once diagnosed, should be timely and reasonable treatment .

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