Do children get sick with cancer? Maybe only those who irradiated or who leads a particularly unhealthy lifestyle? Is Children's oncology treats? Why do children need blood donors? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Question number 1. Do children get sick with cancer? Maybe only those who irradiated or who leads a particularly unhealthy lifestyle?
Children, unfortunately, sick cancer. Frequency - order
10-15 cases per 100,000 children. But in general, in Russia it amounts to
5000 new cases per year. It is mostly about blood cancer and
lymphatic system (these are various leukemia, lymphoma,
Lymphogranulomatosis), to a lesser extent - the tumor of the central nervous
systems, bones, various organs (kidneys, liver and t.NS.).
Sick a variety of children. Boys and girls,
babies and teenagers, cities and villages, strong and fragile, from
rich and poor families. Fashion with a guarantee to protect yourself from child cancer
does not exist.
Question # 2. Why do you think that it is the problems of children, patients with cancer, are especially relevant?
In our country, cancer ranks second in the structure
Children's freeze from 1 to 14 years. First - accidents (injuries and
poisoning), but here we can do little, and cancer patients can
Really help.
At the same time, the efforts of relatives and doctors
in cancer diseases are often not enough. Modern treatment
leukemia or lymphoma is very long and heavy, implies numerous
blood transfusion, and often the purchase of expensive drugs (one bottle
of such drugs like neapogen, pentaglobin, ambiz, kansidas, vfend
It costs thousands or even tens of thousands of rubles). For many months of treatment,
As a rule, family resources are already exhausted, and you need help volunteers and
benefactors.
Of course, you need help and other children. For example,
Very hard the position of children who expect kidney transplants and for a long time
are on dialysis. There are children with a sick liver, sick heart, with
fibrosis and other severe hereditary diseases. AND
Now voluntary societies are gradually formed in Russia to help
And such children.
Question number 3. Is Children's oncology treats?
Children's cancer now in many cases successfully
treated. In our country, this has become true since the early 1990s,
Thanks to the introduction of more efficient chemotherapy protocols.
Surgical technique is improved. According to the statistics of developed countries
With a modern level of medicine, you can heal to 80% of the ill
cancer. In Russia, so far is cured about 50%. In countries «Third World»
- up to 20%.
If you consider the total number of illsant equal to 5`000, and
Existing survival rate of 50% (2`500), it helps in the acquisition
expensive drugs and equipment used in developed countries,
Mobilizing children on the fight against ailment, there is a chance to give life annually
Another 1`500 Russian children, having achieved by common efforts of the real 80%.
Now «Principal incurability» Children's cancer
- Outdated view. But it is a lively, because society
Not enough informed. The media rarely want
talk about such a painful problem like cancer. If in medical
Book Children's Cancer is called incurable, then, most likely, you encountered
Just with reproving the old book where new data is not taken into account.
Question number 4. Why do children need blood donors?
If a child has a diagnosis «leukemia» or «Aplastic
anemia», This means that he needs not only money for medicines, but also
blood. No matter how much money managed to gather, the child will die if
leave it without blood transfusion. From this rule there are no exceptions.
Blood transfusion is one of the specific types of therapy when
Hematological diseases without which the patient dies during
2 or 3 months.
In aplastic anemia, the hematopoietic organ -
bone marrow ceases to produce all blood cells. These are red blood cells,
Oxygen separating over tissues; Platelets warning
hemorrhages and bleeding, and leukocytes that fight with
infectious processes, with viruses and fungi. In the absence of these
cells man dies from bleeding and infections harmless to
Healthy people. Treatment of aplastic anemia is aimed at
make the bone marrow again start producing blood cells. But so far
This does not happen, the child needs regular blood transfusions.
During leukemia, during the period of acute development of the disease
bone marrow produces only patients with cells, and after each course
chemotherapy about 3 weeks bone marrow also not
produces blood cells, and the patient must be transfused.
Some patients are overflowing once a week, some - each
day.
Question number 5. Does we talk about full recovery from cancer? It seemed to me that cancer could only retreat for a while, and then he would come back again.
Need to distinguish full cure and remission
(temporary disappearance or reduction of clinical signs of the disease).
In this case, we talk exactly about cancer cure. With most
oncological diseases if the child lived after treatment for 5 years without
Recurrements, it is considered healthy - the probability of cancer will
Low.
Question number 6. And that, recovered children can lead a full life? Or they remain deep disabled?
Almost all recovered children mentally
Full, and in many cases physically. They can learn,
communicate with other children, play sports, and upon reaching
adult age - work, to start families, give birth. Sure,
Frequently and cases of serious complications after severe treatment -
For example, problems with vision, with kidneys, with musculoskeletal
system, with reproductive health. But in general it is impossible to say that
All children who have suffered cancer will remain seriously ill for life.
Moreover, with proper and timely treatment with significant
part of complications can be copped.
Question number 7. But why then leukemia and lymphoma in adults are treated much worse?
Modern protocols of anticancer treatment are very
hard tolerated. If in childhood and youth the body can survive
Such treatment and recover, then in the mature and old age chances
Reduce. And when using other protocols, the results worse.
Question number 8. Why parents of sick children will not try to pay for the treatment, selling their apartment or exchanged it for the worse?
Often it happens - people sell everything that
can be sold including housing. But this output is not available to anything.
First, if the family came to treatment from the impoverished little
Town or from the village (standard situation), then the cost
apartments or private house even closely do not have enough for treatment. And there I
Family from hostels, from communal, from emergency houses.
Secondly, if you sell an apartment, then after graduation
Treatment should be thought of payment of removable housing. And the family by this time
often turns out to be in such a material position that barely barely
Straws for food. If we are talking about lone mother or
lonely father with a child (it's no secret that families with patients with children often
disintegrate), then they may not be without funds to
existence other than meager pensions, t.To. adult due to need
permanent care for the child loses work.
Thirdly, it is impossible to change on very old housing,
Since staying in it is deadly for a child with reduced
Immunity. Because of the cold and, worst, because of the fungus. There is I
Other difficulties. In other words, the sale or exchange of an apartment is
Possible exit only for relatively prosperous families living in
major cities. And the rest are looking for help from benefactors.
Question number 9. I heard that the state pays chemotherapy in Russia. Why then need sponsorship for treatment?
Not always and not all the necessary drugs have
in hospitals. In particular, for example, high costs are often required
Modern antifungal drugs and antibiotics that allow
cope with severe infectious complications (since
Chemotherapy Immune defense of the body sharply weakens, the problem of infections
is one of the main). They usually have to buy on their
money - or on sponsorship, if there is no money. Not
Pays for a budget for a number of analyzes and research (for example,
CT scan). Not paid a noticeable part of the costs of
Bone marrow transplantation. During the treatment and permanent care
child family often bothers so much that there is no money
only for medicines, but even on everyday household needs.
Question number 10. How to distinguish real charity Internet sites and pages from «
Lochotron»?
This is a big problem, t.To. fraudulent sites appear regularly. But you can give some advice.
First, a properly compiled site with the announcement
The search for charity assistance must necessarily contain
only account numbers and email address, but also other coordinates for
communication and information verification. For example, in the case of searching for money for
specific patient - the name of the hospital, as well as the name and position
attending physician; In the case of the Fund - its details, telephone, copies
registration documents and t.NS. In addition, if banking
details of a legal entity, it is useful to pay attention to what exactly
The benefactor is offered to write in the field «purpose of payment». This is
should not be «Enumeration of funds under a contract such», but «Charitable assistance for treatment of such». If the announcement
is incorrect, then it does not necessarily mean that its author -
scammer. Maybe he just does not imagine how
look like a list of help. But in any case such
Ads must inspire suspicions and recheck.
Secondly, on the contrary, there are respected and
Verified sites of famous organizations that have been collecting many years
Money for the treatment of children. Links to some of the sites are given at the end
This list of questions.
Thirdly, often fraudsters take from famous
charitable sites Real children's stories, but indicate their
Bank details. To eliminate this type of fraud, useful,
For example, see the search program on the Internet, is there anywhere else
still sites asking for the help of these children or written exactly
these words, after which compare bank details.
