Childhood Cancer

Did you know there are 11 types of childhood cancer? Only specially-trained doctors can treat them and help the family with the knowledge of cancer. The child will have a multi-people team of pediatric physicians and specialists. The 11 types of childhood cancer are: Bone cancer, Brain cancer, Leukemia, Hepatoblastoma (liver cancer), Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Retinoblastoma, Rhabdoid tumors, Sarcoma, and kidney tumors. Childhood cancers are more aggressive than adult cancers because the child’s immune system is still building up. Cancer and accidents are the two most common causes of childhood deaths. Some of the symptoms of childhood cancer are: unusual lumps, unusual swelling, easy bruising, and loss of energy. The most common cancer in children is leukemia and the youngest diagnoses can be age 6. 1 in 5 children diagnosed with cancer will not survive and the survivors are always still fighting because the cancer can always come back and sometimes it can come back even worse than before. One of the girls that I used to watch had Leukemia and she was 2 years old diagnosed. Five years later and she is still a survivor but won’t be considered cured until December 2020. She is so sweet and when cancer hit her, she fought her hardest and had some bad days but had some good days also. The whole community was behind her and there were some fundraisers to raise money for anything they needed due to there also being 3 younger girls in the house. She won the little miss pageant at LaRue county fair the year she was told she was a survivor of cancer. Now she gets to do some stuff she didn’t get to before with her 3 sisters and her friends. September is childhood cancer month. The oldest age that children mostly die from cancer is 14-years-old. One of the major child cancer hospitals is St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee. The family doesn’t have to pay for anything while their child is in the hospital. St. Jude pays for the travel, hotel, and food for the patient and patients parents.