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Exposure to pesticides and some fertilizers, as well as benzene found in some paints pottery are associated factors that could cause cancer in children, it can be presented in different forms such as leukemia or tumors .The main municipalities in the state where they have detected cases are in the agricultural area.Currently there are 75 new cases, said Agustin Rodriguez Hernandez, a physician responsible for the Program for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer in Infants and Adolescents of state government.

The International Day of Children with Cancer held at Children’s Hospital of this city Eva Samano, director of Health Services in the state, Tiznado Nocetti July, said that on average since 2005, the Ministry of Health in the state (SSM ) has been diagnosed and treated 850 patients.In 2010 there were 75 new cases, 57 are in treatment, five in surveillance, two in palliative care, there have been 10 deaths and abandonment of treatment.

The survival for patients treated at Children’s Hospital is 62.8 percent, which places the national average Michoacán, each year 80 new cases detected in children under 18 years, “hence the importance of having trained personnel to that contributes substantially to the early diagnosis of this condition, “he said. (more…)

Early diagnosis and proper care helps decrease mortality in children with cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. They recommend doctors and health personnel familiar with the specific symptoms that strongly suspected of pediatric tumors.

In Argentina, 65% of children with cancer is cured, a figure that could rise to 80%, if reached early diagnosis, proper treatment and comprehensive patient care .This reminded him of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Ministry of Health of the Nation, under the International Day for the Fight Against Childhood Cancer, held today.

Although cancer in children is not a common disease, makes a big impact on the physical, social and emotional strain on patients and their families .Therefore, among other goals, the overall objective is to improve INC, strengthen and ensure a more equitable care and quality in pediatric oncology in Argentina.
In this context, the health minister, Juan Manzur, was pleased to note that “this year we have a National Cancer Institute is working to ensure every child care more equitable and quality in all jurisdictions of the national territory”.

He added that “from the INC is promoting the training of human resources in the area of pediatric oncology as part of a strategy to strengthen the diagnostic processes”.
Manzur also said that “such a sensitive issue as all childhood cancers need to coordinate the efforts with the participation of all stakeholders,” while he called the doctors and Health “sensitized to the symptoms Featuring Cancer in children to detect early and managed properly.”

Early diagnosis helps to reduce child mortality.Under that, the INC recommended for those who are in contact with children (nurses, general practitioners, pediatricians, residents, health workers) become familiar with common nonspecific signs and symptoms that, properly evaluated, enable early diagnosis of pediatric tumors .

In Argentina between 2000 and 2008 were reported to ROHA 11,445 cancer cases among children under 15 years of age, representing about 1270 children per year.The 37% are leukemias, brain tumors 18% and 13% lymphomas, while the remaining 32% includes a diverse group of less common tumors.
In the nine years since the registration, the number of new cases recorded by ROHA remained stable in both the country and in most provinces.

82% of pediatric cancer patients are seen in 30 public hospitals throughout the country. Approximately 50% of cases are concentrated in five hospitals.

Given the complexity of treatment, 40% of children eventually migrated to care facilities that provide services of greater complexity.The figures range from 30% for leukemia and 51% for brain tumors.
In recent years increased efforts by different areas related to children with cancer care (hospitals, foundations, and government agencies) so that the gap between different social, economic and geographical change and thus match opportunities for all children with cancer in our country.

The NCI, established by the President under the orbit of the national health portfolio, centralized policy enforcement for the prevention, control and cancer research in the country.The oncologic pathology is the leading cause of death for people between 35 and 64 years in Argentina, causing about 60,000 deaths annually. It is estimated that annually there are 200 000 new cases.

Some types of cancer that most often affect children are:

Hodgkin’s disease: (lymphoma) The lymphatic system is the one responsible for our body to defend against infections that attack.The cells that do that are called lymphocytes. Hodgkin’s disease occurs when cells reproduce abnormally.It may invade the spleen, liver, bone marrow and lungs, reduced red blood cells and hemoglobin is abnormal nocturnal sweating, persistent fatigue, anemia, weight loss, fever and painless growth of the lymph nodes around the neck, armpits and English.

NHL: It is called so when a group of malignant tumors originate in the lymph nodes.It is more common presence in the abdomen and chest.It is sometimes presented as leukemia.Symptoms include abdominal pain, respiratory problems, painless growth of the lymph nodes around the neck, armpits and English, weight loss, fever, fatigue, bowel obstruction and abdominal noticeable growth.

Brain Tumors: This type of tumor greatly affect the physical abilities of the person who has it.The symptoms that occur include headache, irritability, fatigue or unusual drowsiness, vomiting without nausea eventually, impaired or hearing loss, vision, speech, taste, balance, smell, or control of movements.In one third of brain tumor cases convulsions occur.

Tumors of the spinal cord: The brain and spinal cord (located in the spine) are the central nervous system (CNS) the body. Spinal cord tumors are similar to those developed in the brain, since both structures have the same tissue type, although the spinal cord tumors are less common than brain. Most spinal cord tumors are usually the result of tumors originating in other body parts. When developing a tumor in the spinal cord, this stops the flow of messages from the brain to the nerves of the body, thus producing the characteristic symptoms of this disease, such as pain, because the tumor presses on the spine- loss of sensitivity and ability to move arms or legs.Sometimes only one side of the body paralyzed.

Leukemia: This disease is not hereditary or contagious.Most often occurs in previously healthy children. Being a proliferation of immature cells and abnormal blood, leukemia is considered a “blood cancer”, whose cause may be due to a combination of agents such as radiation, toxic chemicals, viruses and other, generally are unknown, but by acting together trigger its development.Some symptoms are: fatigue, poor appetite, intermittent fever, bone pain, decreased red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells, apparent anemia, spontaneous bleeding, skin patches or large hematomas.Bleeding through the nose, mouth and rectum, as well as cerebral hemorrhage.

Rhabdomyosarcoma: A malignant tumor that affects the muscles of the body. Usually develops in the head, neck, arms, legs, trunk, retroperitoneum (posterior muscle region of the spine and hip), inside the chest, bowel, stomach, liver, bile ducts (tubes of the gallbladder), genital and urinary tract, among others.Symptoms are directly related to the organs of the body are affected.
Retinoblastoma is a cancerous tumor that affects the cells of the retina (inner eye).The main symptoms include tearing, red eye, strabismus, presence of a white area in the center of the eye (pupil).

Ewing’s sarcoma: This type of cancer develops in the bone and tissue around them, appearing more often in long bones like the femur, tibia, leg, humerus, radius and ulna in the arm.Also, the pelvis, hip, and shoulder blade.Its symptoms are pain, enlargement of the affected part, numbness or weakness of arms and legs, severe constipation or loss of control urination, persistent cough or pain when breathing deeply.

Neuroblastoma affects both the adrenal glands and nervous system.Symptoms are directly related to the affected organs, however, symptoms may occur as high blood pressure, flushing, sweating on one side of body, fever, irritability, pain in legs, arms, or bones.

Children need to inform them of the cancer with clear words and short phrases”

Those affected by cancer should always inform their children, gradually, taking into account their maturity, because when they set aside the children suffer. The musicological Sonia Fuentes, Psycho-Oncology Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)-Badalona, ??Hospital Germans, in this interview provides some guidance on why and how parents should act with respect to cancer sufferers their children. Demystifying the disease and present it as a natural process is one of them.

How do we tell a child that your mother or father has cancer?
The first thing to consider is the child’s age and maturity level of understanding, is not the same a 4 or 5 years than a 10 or a teenager.Before reaching that women affected, for example, you find a lump.At this point, you can begin to explain to a child of 5 or 6 years that her mother must see a doctor.This is information gradually, with clear and understandable words, phrases and short simple and, above all, always dosing information.Do not forget that communication is not an act but a process.

Why is it important to consider such a process?
Telling or not telling the truth is not to give much information, but to inform as they know things.The disease is not an act but a process, to be slowly to inform the child to go digested.

Do I need to be active when the children are informed about a cancer process?
Yes, I think so.Children, for their way of being, often ask a lot but be aware that there may be others who do not, they are quieter, like teenagers, who do not dare to ask.It is also very important to let the little ones, especially if the mother is absent during the surgery and treatment, because if not, distress.We have to explain things, because with the big imagination and overflowing with all kinds may involve issues that do not correspond with reality.

Who is best placed to inform the child of the process: the person concerned or the rest of the family healthy?
I think the best person to inform himself is affected.
Why?
Speaking of disease is a form of education as it is part of the life cycle
A sick person provides their own information to your child.However, if the person gives information, it may think that what happens to your mother ‘too big’.What we recommend to our patients is that when the couple has affected to inform them together, although the patient who must communicate the news.We think it is good to involve the partner, and if the mother is unmarried, it is recommended that one person with you is a benchmark for the child, as this will allow you to compare the information you get with someone else.We must naturalize the disease as possible because it is part of life.We need to talk to their children, nieces and nephews … diseases.Comment is a way of educating in this view of disease as a natural process.

So, should we always inform them of cancer and other diseases?
Always.They are always taken into account and should be informed of everything: disease, adoptions, separation … Some families do not and, by letting them apart, the children suffer.They realize all the changes at home, especially when the mother is affected.

Recently, the ICO has issued a paper on the increased prevalence of depression in people with cancer. Have you studied this disorder in the environment affected?What about children?Do you depressed?
Rather than get depressed, we could say that an altered normalcy, especially when the mother is the primary caregiver, which leads the school and pick them homework help and can not do to continue the process of chemotherapy. The kids miss. Therefore it is desirable to find someone who has a strong bond with the child so that during those days, can replace the mother. But it should be clear that there are recipes for everyone. Not the same woman newly diagnosed with cancer a terminal phase.

How should you deal with children with end-stage?
As I said before, you should report to the smallest since the beginning, so when the disease is complicated, they will see that his mother is well and live deterioration.This does not mean it is not painful, but it is worse to live in silence.Of course, everything depends on the communication style of the family.There are families who communicate effectively and others are struggling.
And that’s the worst in these cases.
Lack of communication is a problem that does not help much.At meetings of family-oriented psycho-oncology with some difficulty and we propose to learn new ways of communicating, promoting coexistence in difficult situations, much more adaptive.
I guess to inform children in a gradual manner that avoids the trauma would tell at once.
Yes Awareness of a bad news hit is obviously more traumatic and therefore it is advisable to dispense information.This will generate a circuit of questions and answers.It is important that sometimes the parent’s response is “I do not know,” “do not know, the doctor explained it to us.”Saying you do not know something is also an answer.

It is possible that many children have heard of cancer.What can be done to remove the fear of this disease?
Children do not have the fears that have the elderly.But we have to do is demystify the disease. Sometimes we are most afraid of the word than the disease itself.The wolf is not so fierce!And there are also difficult to deal with diseases that do not have the connotations of cancer.In principle, children have no prejudices or fears.Perhaps the most likely to be more contaminated by the higher the adolescents.The thing to explain is that cancer is a chronic disease that affects many people but most, after cancer treatments, are their lives.Surely in his class there are children whose mother or father which have or have had cancer.The best we can do to take away the fear of these children is to ‘naturalize’ the disease.Not only cancer, but the entire life cycle.
TELL A STORY WITH
Explain to a child who has a disease like cancer can be painful and difficult for many parents.Around age three, children and capture anything going on around him and is considered the ideal age to begin to report a case of cancer at home.The psicooncóloga Sonia Fuentes, aware of the difficulty of taking this necessary step, wrote the children’s story ‘… What’s wrong, Mom? “which won the ‘Jaume Blanchart Suñol i’ in 2006, improving information to patients by the Academy of Medical Sciences and Health of Catalonia and the Balearic.

The story is suitable for children from 3 to 4 years to 10 years.The illustrations in Meritxell Giralt, head of a nursery and an expert in motor skills, complete the narrative of the process of successful breast cancer from diagnosis to treatment and introduce elements to demystify the disease and enjoy the day to day in spite of it.
This is how Pol gets to play the pirates with his mother, who has his head covered with a handkerchief, and to declare that her mom is the best in the world.Next to him, goes through the pages of the story a butterfly that changes of expression.It is sometimes sad, sometimes angry, and other content.This feature allows psicooncólogos work with the child’s emotions and make the express.

On the occasion of International Day of Children with Cancer, held on Tuesday, the Center for Health conducted a campaign of prevention and treatment of this disease in childhood and adolescence, informed the director of the clinic, Rosa Alcocer Villanueva.

The doctor states that the purpose of these activities is to provide children and adolescents for early diagnosis of this disease and a multidisciplinary, timely and quality, to reduce mortality from this cause.

There are many types of cancer could be prevented by avoiding exposure to risk factors like sun and smoke, snuff, he says.

We also know that the problems faced by children with autism are many, as the cost of treatment, the geographical distance of the specialized units and the limited number of places that treat them.

Warning Signs
Why was the creation of systems of protection Health Social has been a fundamental part of the treatment of childhood cancer.

The director of the Health Center says that parents of families should be aware of the ailments that have their children.”Unwarranted pains are a sign of alarm, also unexplained fever, pallor, weight loss, poor appetite, fatigue, among others.”

When these symptoms are found necessary to carry children to the doctor immediately so that you do the necessary studies and identify the causes of the disease .- PC

Considering that all body organs are formed by tissues, the tissues are composed of sets of cells, and cells are responsible for the growth, evolution, and the renewal of the organs and tissues, you need to know when there is an alteration in a cell, or that this has served its purpose and responded to the demand for organs and tissues, it dies. If the cell survives, it will cause the same cells, other than normal and, escaping the normal mechanisms of control, proliferate resulting in a set of “sick” cells and abnormal to be located in a tissue or organ, can travel by blood to other organs or tissues, causing tumors of many types and in different locations. Growing out of control, the cell becomes abnormal sizes and shapes, destroy neighboring cells, organs and bones, consuming part of the nutrients and energy from the patient, and weakening the body’s defenses.In these diseased cells called cancer medicine, a disease that can occur at any stage of life, from birth and throughout the development of human beings.

Cancer is not a communicable disease. Cancer is an uncontrolled spread of cells in any organ or tissue, which arises when a group of cells escapes the normal control mechanisms in their replication and differentiation.

Childhood Cancer
On the occasion of World Day against Cancer, February 4, the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), devotes its celebration this year to the fight against childhood cancer because of that today, this disease is the second most frequent cause Infant mortality in children aged between 1 and 14.

Statistics teach that each year more than 160 000 children are diagnosed with cancer in the world. 80% of pediatric patients live in developing countries. According to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in developed countries, three out of four children with cancer survive at least five years after diagnosis, thanks to advances in diagnosis and treatment of this disease.In developing countries, more than half of children diagnosed with cancer is likely to die.

In Spain, after accidents, cancer is the second leading cause of infant mortality. Today, both the incidence and prevalence of cancer in childhood is rising. Because of that, it becomes increasingly necessary in a better and early diagnosis and effective treatments.

The most common cancers in children
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the most common cancers in children are leukemia (cancer of white blood cells), followed by lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes), brain tumors (cancer that can be placed in many parts the brain), and osteosarcoma (bone cancer). Tumors account for 80% of all cases.

Leukemia is cancer that occurs in childhood more. There are several types. The most common in children is acute scholastically leukemia, and often have children aged between 2 and 8.After leukemia, brain tumors are the second most common cancer in childhood. Can occur between 5 and 10 years of life. And followed by tumors are lymphomas, which are cancers that develop from the lymphatic system. Less frequently, there are usually small intestine cancer, liver, spleen, nervous system and bone marrow.

Cancer begins in cells that form tissues in the body. Normally, new cells are formed as needed to replace old cells that die. Sometimes this process goes wrong. New cells form that are not needed and old cells do not die when they should. The excess cells can form a tumor. Benign tumors are not cancer, but the evil itself. Cells from malignant tumors can invade nearby tissues or spread and spread to other parts of the body.

Children can get cancer in the same body parts as adults, but there are differences. Childhood cancers can occur suddenly, without early symptoms, and have a high cure rate. The most common cancer in children is leukemia. Other cancers that affect children include: brain tumors , lymphoma and soft tissue sarcoma .Symptoms and treatment depend on the type of cancer and how advanced the disease is. Treatment may include surgery, radiation and / or chemotherapy.

Cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the body causes diseases.Cells are tiny units that make up all living things.Humans have more than 10 trillion cells!Cells is impossible to see with the naked eye but can be seen under a microscope.

Cancer occurs when cells start growing abnormally and divide uncontrollably.A group or mass of growing cells is called a “tumor.”No matter what body part is the tumor, is called “benign” if it is cancer or “evil” if it is cancer.

Children usually do not have cancer.And many of the afflicted children can be treated and cured.Common treatments for cancer include chemotherapy, which is to receive cancer drugs through the veins, and radiation, which is the use of powerful energy waves (like X-rays) to kill cancer cells.It is also possible to use surgery to remove tumors.And in some cases, as in leukemia, it is possible to transplant bone marrow or stem cells to help the child regain health.

Below are some cancers that affect children: (more…)

Vacations can be a risk factor for melanoma
The exposure to the sun rise by 5 percent the presence of moles, which are the most dangerous factor of cancer in children under seven years, said a study released by the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

“Parents of young children should be cautious when carrying children on holiday in very sunny places along the sea and where people are all day sun exposure,” said Lori Crane, Department of Community Health School of Public Health of Colorado.

Or tumor growth Moles (nevi) are the first sign of melanoma, the form most lethal skin cancer. In the U.S. alone is estimated that each year the evil afflicting more than 62,000 people and more than 8,000 die from the disease.

According to Crane, parents mistakenly believe that sunscreens are not perfect.

He explained that these products offer some protection but is also likely that children remain in the sun beyond the prudent time which increases the danger, he said.

“We recommend that to reduce the risk activities for boys in the shade between 10 am and 4 pm. And if they must be outdoors, using long-sleeved shirt.

In their study to 681 children born in 1998, scientists found that in the years before the examination to be undertaken to meet 7 years, moles of less than 22 mm increased 5 percent.

“The holidays can be a risk factor for melanoma,” said Crane