Childhood Cancer: Is India Prepared to Face It?
Statistics shown by some top cancer hospitals say that only in U.S there are more than 13,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer. In India the ‘shadow of crab’ is one 55,000 children every year. This is a worrisome number because only 5 % of childhood cancer is hereditary rest 95% is due to external causes like viruses, pollution, radiation etc.
Here is a sad story; Nitesh loves his red car and Maggi noodles which are a small treat for him. When smiles innocently to take a photograph with his broken teeth even through high sedatives.
This 12-year old village boy is battling with bone cancer for a period of six years now. Last month his father, a farmer by profession took him to one of the top hospitals in India.
The doctors out there have already told him that he should take his son home because the cancer is incurable and has already reached the last stage. Now his skeletal body has to fight with this life threatening disease including four rounds of morphine injections everyday. All his parents want is that he should have a painless death. But the child mind of Nitesh believes that he will be fine one day.
Amongst all these, the most common ones are lymphoma, brain cancer and leukemia. Others are bone cancer, Retinoblastoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Lymphoma, Wilms tumor, nervous system tumors and others.
It is sad to know that funding for childhood cancer is quite low than other types of cancer. Over the years no new drug has been invented. The Pediatric Oncology Treatment offered to save the lives of children is often intrusive and aggressive as the medicines sold are old and outdates.
One thing is common about all kinds of gi cancer and childhood cancer which have a common disease process and we provide cancer surgical treatment.
Here the cells grow out of control, ignore the boundaries inside the body, develop into abnormal shapes and sizes, destroy their nearby cells and ultimately spread it to other tissues and organs. Bone marrow transplant in India is one of the most common cancer treatments.
When the cancer cell grows, they demand more and more nutrition. It takes away strength of the child, destroy organs and cells and ultimately spread to other tissue and organs. It weakens the defense mechanism of the body against all kinds of illnesses. When the child is already suffering from cancer then on entering the teens there is increase in incidence of bone cancer.
According to cancer radiation therapy in India the site of cancer is different for each type so are treatments and cure types. Usually the factors that trigger cancer in kids are different from that of adults which they might be into smoking or get exposed to environmental toxins.
It is quite rare that there might be risk in childhood cancer among kids with a genetic condition like Down Syndrome. Even those who have already undergone radiation treatment or chemotherapy for a prior cancer treatment have increased risk of this disease.
Here is a sad story; Nitesh loves his red car and Maggi noodles which are a small treat for him. When smiles innocently to take a photograph with his broken teeth even through high sedatives.
This 12-year old village boy is battling with bone cancer for a period of six years now. Last month his father, a farmer by profession took him to one of the top hospitals in India.
The doctors out there have already told him that he should take his son home because the cancer is incurable and has already reached the last stage. Now his skeletal body has to fight with this life threatening disease including four rounds of morphine injections everyday. All his parents want is that he should have a painless death. But the child mind of Nitesh believes that he will be fine one day.
Amongst all these, the most common ones are lymphoma, brain cancer and leukemia. Others are bone cancer, Retinoblastoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Lymphoma, Wilms tumor, nervous system tumors and others.
It is sad to know that funding for childhood cancer is quite low than other types of cancer. Over the years no new drug has been invented. The Pediatric Oncology Treatment offered to save the lives of children is often intrusive and aggressive as the medicines sold are old and outdates.
One thing is common about all kinds of gi cancer and childhood cancer which have a common disease process and we provide cancer surgical treatment.
Here the cells grow out of control, ignore the boundaries inside the body, develop into abnormal shapes and sizes, destroy their nearby cells and ultimately spread it to other tissues and organs. Bone marrow transplant in India is one of the most common cancer treatments.
When the cancer cell grows, they demand more and more nutrition. It takes away strength of the child, destroy organs and cells and ultimately spread to other tissue and organs. It weakens the defense mechanism of the body against all kinds of illnesses. When the child is already suffering from cancer then on entering the teens there is increase in incidence of bone cancer.
According to cancer radiation therapy in India the site of cancer is different for each type so are treatments and cure types. Usually the factors that trigger cancer in kids are different from that of adults which they might be into smoking or get exposed to environmental toxins.
It is quite rare that there might be risk in childhood cancer among kids with a genetic condition like Down Syndrome. Even those who have already undergone radiation treatment or chemotherapy for a prior cancer treatment have increased risk of this disease.
