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Cancer is not just a disease of adults, but also can affect children even though it is not too many. Although all parts of the body can get cancer, there is a type of cancer that is more commonly found in children.
"Cancer child only 2-4 percent of all cases of cancer in humans. But cancer causes 10 percent of deaths in children.
The following five types of cancer most often found in children.
1. Leukemia (blood cancer)
Compared to other types of cancer, leukemia or cancer of the white blood is a type of cancer most commonly found in children. Based on the progression of the disease, acute leukemia is more common in children than in chronic leukemia.
Symptoms to watch the leukemia is pale or lethargy, fever with no apparent cause nosebleeds and bleeding either or red spots on the skin such as dengue fever. If you find these signs, immediately take the child to the clinic for blood tests or hospital.
If late getting treatment, cancer cells can spread to the liver and kidneys so belly looks bigger. The spread of cancer cells in leukemia also can reach the bones, gums and even the testicles in boys.
2. Retinoblastoma (eye cancer)
The type of cancer that attacks the eyes are common in infants up to the age of 5 years, at most at the age of 2-3 years. Just like leukemia, retinoblastoma, or eye cancer can also spread to bone, spinal cord and central nervous system.
Symptoms often appear in the early stages of eye cancer is the cat eye syndrome (white pupil), squint (strabismus), and inflammation of the eye tissue (cellulitis). Eyeballs stood out (bupthalmos) indicates that the cancer is already at an advanced stage.
3. Osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
Bone cancer, or osteosarcoma common in preteen age or over 10 years, most often found at the age of 15-19 years. When disaggregated by gender, boys tend to be more at risk of developing this cancer than women.
The early symptoms of bone cancer almost like arthritis in adults, the pain is severe and does not go away (persistent), especially in the evening time. The difference, the pain comes from the bones, especially the upper arm or upper thigh, instead of joints such as arthritis.
In addition, the bone being cancerous would be so easy to brittle fracture. In order for bone cancer has not spread, for now there is no other option except amputation of parts that have been encroached cancer.
4. neuroblastoma (nerve cancer)
Cancer that attacks the sympathetic nervous tissue dominates 10 percent of all cases of cancer in children. Most ditemukkan in newborns up to the age of 4 years, with the ratio of cases in boys 1.2 times more than girls.
The characteristics that indicate early symptoms of neuroblastoma include a lump in the abdomen and bleeding in the eye. Bleeding in Amata will give a bluish color in sekutar eye bags, so-called eye syndrome raccoon (racoon's eye syndrome).
5. Lymphoma malignum
Cancer that attacks the lymphoid tissue is most commonly found in children aged 7-10 years. Boys tend to be more vulnerable than girls to be exposed to this type of cancer, with a ratio between 2.5 to 1.
The characteristics originally was a lump of 2 cm or more around the neck, armpits and groin without pain. Lumps are often urged the chest cavity, causing the sufferer to experience shortness of breath.
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