Age 12-20: Effects Of Cancer In Children

Cancer is the most common disease that causes death in the United States. It is actually the second leading cause of death behind heart disease. Some people do not realize it but children can also get cancer. This is call childhood cancer and it amongst children from 0-17 years old. Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States. At a very young age, childhood cancer had impacted my life physically, mentally and emotionally. It definitely changed my perspective on how I will live my life through on out.

Cancer has one of the biggest effects on the patients mental health but also the patients loved ones and friends. It is one of the hardest things to get a grip on when the doctor tells someone that they have cancer and a fifty-fifty chance of making it. "The disease can bring many changes-in what people do and how they look, in how they feel and what they value" (Dakota 4). It makes people look at the world and their lives in a different way, valuing now what they took for granted and seeing the bigger picture in every scenario. It is something that no one can actually brace, even after the doctor tells them. Through it all though, the person must remain strong and optimistic because the cancer can affect the person's moods and in return affect the outcome of the person and the chances of their making it

Childhood cancer is two of the most devastating words any parent can hear regarding their child. A child that was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1960s rarely survived and typically led to death. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital understood this concern. When the hospital was created the childhood cancer survival rate was less than 20%. Today, through research and discoveries the rate has raised to 80%.

Paving New Pathways will address CanTeen members, occupational transition from being a cancer patient into a cancer survivor. It also aims to address the occupational deprivation experienced, the forming of a new occupational identity and regaining occupational balance. Dyson, Thompson, Palmer, Thomas and Schofield (2011) and Zebrack (2011) acknowledged that experiencing cancer during this critical develomental stage had an impact on a number of areas of occupation. Futhermore Lewis et al. (2014) highlighted that those who survive youth cancer experience a number a difficulties with life that if unresolved will create barriers for future occupational engagement. With a 95% surival rate after one year and 87%-88% after five years, the post-treatment effects that cancer has on young people needs to be addressed (Lewis, Jordens, Mooney-Somers, Smith & Kerridge, 2013; Lewis et al. 2014).

Ph.D. degree acquired authors, Ronald L. Blount, Ronald T. Brown, and Natalie C. Frank, conducted a study focused on predictors of the overall psychological adjustment in children who are battling cancer. They concentrated on anxiety and depression levels and how the child externalizes behavior. There were 83 children who participated in this study of ages ranging from 7 to 18 years. After obtaining parental and child consent, the researchers proceeded to give each

OXFORD, Oct. 25 – “At 5 months old my daughter was diagnosed with cancer in both of her eyes” said Ellen Flannery, the Founder and Executive Director of CancerFree KIDS. Cancer is the number two leading cause of death among children between the ages of 5-14. By the time you finish reading this paragraph, two more people have passed away from a form of cancer across the United States.

Carr, B. (2013). Psychological aspects of cancer: A guide to emotional and psychological consequences of cancer, their causes and their management. New York: Springer.

This charity programs have traditionally been built on three parts; reducing the financial barriers to treatment, support systems to soften the family stress that’s linked with transplantation or cancer treatment, and developed with the opening of the Kids Beating Cancer Pediatric Transplant Center. Kids Beating Cancer Pediatric is an exceptional facility providing treatment for children needing transplants to survive their disease. Kids Beating Cancer removes barriers to treatment for children with cancer, leukemia, and sickle cell. Parents seek their services in need of a marrow or stem cell transplant providing support for the families as they facing a challenging situation towards a cure. They also provides the pre-transplant testing

I participate in the Teen Life Council at St. Louis Children’s hospital. The mission of the Teen Life Council is to make St. Louis Children’s Hospital a better place for teen patients by advising the hospital staff on issues important to teens, working to improve the activities available to teen patients, and planning events that will make the hospital a more enjoyable place for teens during their stay. I got involved in the teen life council about two years ago when, my tennis coach who often volunteers at the hospital recommended me for this council. At age seven I was diagnosed with stage three Lymphoma cancer and was treated at Children’s hospital. Now I have been in remission for nine years and thought my previous experience as a patient

Home is where you are always welcome and the one place where you will always be surrounded by those who love and support you. Home to me is cornfields, friday night football games, constant flat tires, and bonfires with my dearest friends all in the small town of Adams. I’ve spent my entire life living in the country surrounded by dirt roads where those dirt roads twist and turn and eventually lead me into Adams. Adams is a town of roughly 600 people but that number is solely just a number because Adams is just a huge support group from the day you are brought into this world to the day you leave this world. Adams is a town where everybody knows everybody and people come together in times of devastation, to celebrate a Freeman Falcon win, or to watch some fireworks on the Fourth of July. I’m proud to

A cancer diagnosis completely changes a person's life. People have to visit their doctors often for treatments. That leaves little time to spend with one's family. It can also have a negative effect on one's appearance. This is why many cancer patients suffer from low self-esteem. However, one young woman has shown that she is not going to let cancer keep her down.

Initially named Kids Acting Against Cancer, the non-profit organization currently known as Acting Against Cancer started in 1999. Jaclyn and Whitten Montgomery decided to combine their love of theater with their desire to assist those who have been impacted by cancer by performing musicals and donating proceeds to local cancer research centers. They started the organization just three years after their mother was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The two discovered the cancer’s prevalence in the population (1 in 50 Americans will develop Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), which spurred them to start the organization. In the sixteen years that the organization has been around, they have accomplished impressive philanthropic feats as well as became a well-known theatre organization in the Louisville area.

Owing to the fact that childhood cancer has become more treatable with higher survival rates, researches are fixated to understand juvenile psycho-oncology more and the long haul habitation of cancer survivors. A group of German researchers have collaborated with one another to study the psychological impact of youths who have battled childhood cancer and how they have managed to stay strong, emotionally (Wenninger, 2013, p. 854).

As established in the National Cancer Institute, “Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide for children and adolescents in America, accounting for more than 91,250 children that lose their lives to this disease” (National Cancer Institute). Cancer is not considered a terminal illness, but more of a chronic illness because of the intense treatment that the individual has to endure. As a result of this treatment the chances of survival for children suffering from pediatric cancer has increased around 80 percent. The increment in the survival rate has made it possible for many parents to not have to go through the acceptance that they are about to lose their child to a terminal illness, but have coping strategies that will make them adapt to the fear of the reoccurrence of that illness. This illness has a great impact on the patient as well as the family because not only do they have to adapt to this illness physically, but also mentally. Research has shown that there are both short term and long term effects that come into effect when the child is both in treatment and also years after the treatment. The type of cancers that these adolescents have to endure range from leukemia, brain tumors and other cancerous tumors that have appeared in recent medical studies. These tumors can either be benignant, an acute case that is non-cancerous or malignant, a cancerous case that will need intense treatment over an extended period of time.While many would say there is more of a

Moreover, children and parents rated daily functioning as more stressful than uncertainty about cancer for children. These results indicate that near the time of diagnosis, children with cancer consider impairment in daily roles as more stressful than not understanding the implications of their diseases in other domains. As such, stressors related to daily role stressors likely require the greatest efforts to cope. In addition, parents’ and children’s cancer–related report on all three types of stressors were statistically significant correlated with higher levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms (Rodriguez et al., 2012) suggesting that coping with these stressors may impact children’s psychosocial