Cancer Symptom’s In Children

February 15 is chosed as International Children’s Cancer Day, to remind all of us will be the increasing cases of childhood cancer. An estimated 2-4% of overall cancer attack children. Although these numbers appear small, but contribute 10% of cancer deaths in children. And according to data from 2007, in Indonesia each year found about 4,100 cancer patients a new child.

Not yet known what causes certain cancers in children. Cancer that attacks since the baby was born, it is suspected of irregularities due to the growth of the cells genetic defects in the womb. In children is greater, is suspected that  trigger are environmental factors and children’s food is not healthy. Can be also due to radiation or viral infection. Or blend between genetic factors, environment, radiation, and infection.

Cancer is found most often in children is a blood cancer or leukemia (25-30%), followed by retinoblastoma (eye cancer retina), limfoma (lymph gland cancer), neuroblastoma (nerve cancer), kidney cancer (Wilms tumor) , rabdomiosarkoma (lurik muscle cancer), and osteosarkoma (bone cancer).

As with adults, cancer in children most likely to be cured if found early in the stadium. But early detection of cancer to children is not easy, because children can not understand the symptoms and can’t told what they feel . Therefore the role of people in the surrounding areas is very important in detecting the symptoms of cancer.

According to some sources, children’s cancer symptoms include:

a. Blood Cancer (leukemia)

Symptoms and the need to be alert that frequently found in leukemia, among others, face pale, listless, weak, fever is not clear and is not cured by antibiotics, the bleeding is not clear, the skin surface appear livid livid when not stumble, prompting members of pain (bone ), stomach swelling / hard, lymph gland enlargement.

b. Brain cancer
Symptoms that should be alert is a headache that the longer the heavy, accompanied by nausea and vomiting due to the pressure hose from the increase in the head. Can also talk with interference, vision disturbances, balance disturbances, convulsions, decrease awareness, and even changes in behavior can occur. The baby is in special  appear prominent.

c. Retina Eye Cancer (Retinoblastoma)
Cancer is most often attacked babies aged 6 months-2 years. Symptoms that need to be alert is The speck of white in the middle of the eye that seems wrong when the light is shining (like cat’s eyes). Other symptoms of vision is delayed, sudden-eyed, and in the stadium go eyeball protruding out.

d. Cancer lymph nodes (Limfoma Maligna)
Cancer is the most children age 5-7 years. Symptoms that should happen is when progressive gland swelling lymph-gland in the neck, axilla, and the intestine, without the pain and inflammation. When you arise in the lymph gland in the intestine, can cause the intestine plugging with symptoms of stomachache, vomiting, unable to defecate, and fever. When grown in the chest, can encourage the breath or pressing the channel, so that the patient experienced shortness of breath and face turn. In addition, children appear weak, listless, and decreased appetite.

e. Nerve cancer (Neuroblastoma)
Cancer simpatis this nerve can occur in different parts of the body. In the children most often occur near the kidneys, the lumbar region, in the neck or chest cavity, and eyes. If there are areas in the eye, can make the ball protruding eyes, eyelid swelling, and blue, or the lid down, and widen pupil. When found in the spine, can press spinal cord and cause paralysis fast. Distribution of the bones can cause a fracture without reason, without pain, so people suddenly limp. Other symptoms appear is swollen part  in the head, stomach or belly and hard.

f. Kidney cancer (Nefroblastoma)
Nefroblastoma often called Wilms Tumor is the most children aged 3-4 years, but can also attack the new born baby. Symptoms are marked with bloody urine, malaise in the stomach, and when the stomach is quite large and appear to swell and felt hard.

g. Muscle cancer (Rabdomiosarkoma)
Cancer can strike anywhere in the muscles, usually in children in the area of the head, neck, bladder, prostate, and vagina. Symptoms depend on the location of the accrued. In the eye socket, can cause eye protruding out,swollen part in the eyes. In the ear causing pain or discharge of blood from the ear hole. If the members  muscle movement, cause swelling.

h. Cancer dislocated (Osteosarkoma)
Osteosarkoma usually attack children aged 10-20 years. Can attack every part of the bones, but most are found in the leg, arm, and part of hip.Usually marked by pain and swelling on the bone. Sometimes is formerly concussion, such as the fall of the causes are not clear.

If you find symptoms like the above on the baby and your children, consult the doctor immediately. Treated in essentially the same as the adults, the combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transplants.

Are prevention efforts that can be done is, pregnant mothers should avoid radiation, avoid pollution and cigarette smoke, always eat healthy foods and avoid foods that contain chemicals, a reduced consumption of fat, and get children to live healthy, eat healthy food, protection from pollution