For some parents Halloween for their child isn’t the happiest of times. Trick or treat it exposes them.. For some of us this can be a brutal awakening, sometimes its a hospital visit. . . .But stay strong and just understand (innerstand) you have some work to do.. We are working on generations of wrong living and eating, it starts before the womb and continues after “death” (transition) . . . . Just keep unlearning and letting go of that false knowledge that has been programmed into that dome piece. . . . Peace to you with Love n’ Light!!!
Every 36 minutes, a young person in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer. In 2015, Teen Cancer America’s 50 States, 50 Stories series visited teens across the country to capture their stories and unique voices. These teens need dedicated spaces, teams, treatments, and research to improve their experience, outcomes, and survival. https://www.youtube.com/playli
Teen Cancer America partners with hospitals throughout the United States to develop specialized facilities and services for teens and young adults with cancer. We build teen friendly environments, develop standards for age-targeted care, improve collaboration between pediatric and adult specialists, and support dedicated research to improve outcomes and survival rates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Twelve percent of childhood cancer survivors carry germline mutations that put them or their children at increased risk of developing cancer, according to a landmark study presented today at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The findings from St. Jude are expected to have an immediate and potentially life-saving impact on the growing population of childhood cancer survivors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Study Press Release: http://ow.ly/DkJG30dU1xt
St. Jude LIFE study: http://ow.ly/N7yV30dU1yR
The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study “points out long-term complications related to specific kinds of cancer treatment,” said Dr. Anna Meadows, director of the Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Today 80 percent of children with cancer become long-term survivors.
By the time survivors are 30 years out from their cancer diagnosis, however, almost 75 percent of them have a chronic health problem and 42 percent die or have severe life-threatening conditions.
“Those are sobering statistics. The data are shocking and worrisome,” said Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, director of the Adult Program for Pediatric Cancer Survivors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. https://curesearch.org/Incidence-Rates-Over-Time
He calls the study, “the most significant paper in the pediatric cancer survivor literature.”
The study found that cancer survivors were 3.3 times as likely as their healthy siblings to have a chronic health condition, and 4.9 times as likely to have two or more chronic health conditions including second cancers, fertility problems, heart disease and kidney failure.
Part of the problem, experts say, is pediatric cancer survivors do not seek out cancer specialists as they get older.
Less than 20 percent of adult cancer survivors are followed by cancer centers, and most doctors do not know what to look for or are completely unaware of these increased risks.
Follow-up care is crucial because pediatric cancer survivors “are not out of the woods at any one period of time,” said Dr. Lisa Diller, clinical director of pediatric oncology at Harvard Medical School.
Psychologist Meghan Marsac, PhD, of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia discusses coping strategies for children and families facing childhood cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer is most common in the Northeast, results that even caught experts off-guard. But some specialists say it could just reflect differences in reporting.
The large government study is the first to find notable regional differences in pediatric cancer. Experts say it also provides important information to bolster smaller studies, confirming that cancer is rare in children, but also more common in older kids, especially among white boys.
The study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also based on data representing 90 percent of the U.S. population. It found cancer affects about 166 out of every million children, a number that shows just how rare childhood cancers are.
The highest rate was in the Northeast with 179 cases per million children, while the lowest was among children in the South with 159 cases per million. Some experts suggested that could mean there is better access to care in the urban centers of the Northeast, leading to more diagnoses.
The rates for the Midwest and West were nearly identical, at 166 cases per million and 165 per million, respectively.
The cancer incidence in boys was 174 cases per million, compared with 157 cases per million in girls. In white children, the rate was 173 per million, versus 164 per million in Hispanics and 118 per million in blacks. Teenagers had higher rates than younger kids.
A total of 36,446 cases were identified in the study, which analyzed 2001-03 data from state and federal registries. The research appears in the June edition of Pediatrics, released Monday.
“It’s very powerful that this study includes so much of the U.S. population so it gives us a good picture of where we are with the incidence of these childhood cancers,” said Elizabeth Ward, the American Cancer Society’s surveillance director.
Experts said the regional differences, though small, are intriguing, but that reasons for them are uncertain.
Better care, more diagnoses?
Dr. Rafael Ducos, a children’s cancer physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, said the South’s low rates were perplexing and might simply reflect under-reporting there and over-reporting in other regions.
“I’m at a loss to explain it,” he said.
Environmental factors might play a role, including exposure to radiation, said lead author Dr. Jun Li of the CDC. Radiation has been linked with the most common types of childhood cancer _ leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancers.
Radiation sources include X-rays, nuclear plant emissions and natural sources such as radon gas. But Li said research is needed to determine if these sources vary enough by region to affect childhood cancer rates.
Dr. Lindsay Frazier, a cancer specialist at Children’s Hospital Boston and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said pollution and housing stock that’s older than anywhere else in the nation might help explain the Northeast’s higher rates.
But also, there could be better access to cancer centers in the Northeast, which would result in more diagnoses, she said. That could also explain why other research has shown that children’s death rates from cancer are also lowest in the Northeast.
While noteworthy, the differences in rates among regions shouldn’t cause alarm among parents, said Dr. Adam Levy, a cancer specialist at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
“As a parent raising a family in the Northeast, this does not at all increase my concern for my family or for my neighbors,” Levy said, adding, “First and foremost, these are still very rare diseases in children.”
Regional differences in rates for some specific cancers have been found in adults, but these are likely due to personal habits and lifestyle factors, Ward said. For example, lung cancer rates are high in the South because smoking is generally more popular there, she said.
But it generally takes years of exposure to lifestyle factors such as smoking before cancer develops, she said, so this wouldn’t explain children’s rates. I have also known expectant mother’s that smoked and the kid turned out healthy !!!
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