Childhood Cancer Essay

‘“Cancer is like a home invasion, once it has invaded your life you will never feel safe again”’ (Adal yn's... 6). Cancer wipes out what a family knew before cancer; it wipes out their version of normal and replaces it with something that can not be controlled. When childhood cancer takes a hold of the family and never lets go. While going through cancer, it is important that a family sticks together and builds each other up through this difficult time. Childhood cancer affects everyone it comes in contact with, but it mainly affects the family, including the child suffering from cancer, as well as the parents or caregiver and siblings.

“The Well-Being of Children Impacted by a Parent with Cancer: An Integrative Review” was published in collaboration with Julia Morris, Angelita Martini, and David Preen. In the summer of 2016, the three authors finalized their research project and published it in the scientific journal, Supportive Care in Cancer. Julia Morris, Angelita Martini, and David Preen are all editors in the Supportive Care in Cancer Medical Journal and also affiliated with the “Centre for Health Services Research School of Population Health” at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, Australia. This article is beneficial to the initial research inquiry, “How does Cancer Affect Family Members,” because it specifically relates to the children in the family. This article places an emphasis on the psychological and mental effects cancer has on children, specific coping mechanisms, and how this traumatic disease changes a child for the better. Cancer is an atrocious disease that affects both the children and parents. However, in certain cases, cancer helps bring out the best in maturing children.

This study was approved and permission was received from a comprehensive Pediatric Oncology Clinic in the Southern U.S. to contact patients who had given prior consent to the clinic personnel for personal information to be released for research purposes. Originally 3502 potential participants were chosen from the clinics database. A registered letter was sent to the childhood cancer survivors (>3 years since ending treatment) ranging in age from18 to 28 who were treated between the years 1996 and 2011. Approximately 25% (N = 876) of the survivors responded to the potential participant questionnaire. It was found that 23%, N=814 of those on the registry have had at least one recurrence and have undergone or are

Pediatric patients were narrowed down to young adults and adolescents ages that were diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemotherapy as the primary treatment. The narrowing of the patients was chosen, as this is the stage of psychosocial development that these patients develop in identity. Articles within five years were included in the gathering of research. Coping with Pediatric Cancer: Strategies Employed by Children and Their Parents to Manage Cancer-Related Stressors During Treatment article (qualitative) explains using fifteen children ranging from six to twelve years old of varying races including Caucasian, African-American, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Hispanic. Each pediatric participant was undergoing treatment for

For over half my life, I have been chasing after small pieces of the cancer puzzle, only in different ways. For six years, I had supported pediatric cancer

Pediatric Cancer is a scary concept. We think as a society that children are innocent and should not have to go through such a deadly and scary adult disease. Unfortunately that is not true. Cancer has no limits or prejudices on what the age, sex, or race of its victim will be. With this paper I want to discuss multiple topics about pediatric cancer. First the statistics, then the treatment options, finally the treatment/prognosis for the family as a whole and not just the patient. There are different treatments that should occur when dealing with the family members of a patient that has cancer. A social worker that works in pediatric oncology truly wears many hats.

In fact, test from children with parents of breast cancer focusing on mood, social functioning and behavior problem by Lizbeth Hoke show that there is no significant difference between children of the breast cancer group and not in the group. However, women that do have breast cancer resulted in psychological distress more than others but their treatment and illness were not related to their children. Due to their distress children of mothers who have breast cancer were found to do better in academic and social more than

Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder is common among children recovering from cancer. According to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PTSD is likely to occur after a serious life threatening event such as cancer. PTSD causes fear, helplessness, and horror in these patients. Out of all cancer patients admitted into CHOP, 24% of them will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, making that equal in impact to the effects of a cardiac incident. Research has shown that within the first two years of remission, childhood cancer survivors will most likely develop PTSD but, it is more common for the parents and siblings of the survivors to suffer from cancer related PTSD than the patients themselves. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has a evidence screener called Psychological Assessment Tool. This tool is a 20-item questionnaire set in place to reveal the factors for difficulty managing stressors of the families affected by childhood cancer. CHOP has also come out with two interventions that help families and children affected by cancer. Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program and Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program- Newly Diagnosed are multiple step programs that help the affected individuals conquer the onset of

Goal: is to get an in-depth understanding of the experiences of families living with someone who suffer from cancer.

Hello, my name is Sophie Rees and I am here to talk to you all about the charity I work and support for, The Cancer Council. The Cancer Council is one of Australia’s largest independent funders of Cancer Research. Over $70.5 million dollars of research grants totalled in 2015 and this was a major help to us as an organisation. Our organisation straight up funded a huge $48.1 million dollars with also an addition of $22.4 million, which was used for our research funding partners. We provide early prevention and detection programs which are great ways to help people reduce and quit smoking, participate in some physical activity which can reduce any risks of cancer and lastly, to protect themselves from the sun. The Cancer Council manage and have

This chapter presented the research design for addressing the research questions guiding this study. This chapter detailed the design of the research. Research design, sampling process, data collection and analysis were the main aspects that were detailed. The study was conducted by making use of a questionnaire.

Cancer survivorship transitioning is a process for the patient and family unit. Patients and families navigate to a “new normal”. Current transitioning from oncology care to primary care leaves a gap in continuity of care. Patients must adapt to a change in the health care regimen. Patients and their families may feel anxiety, returning to primary care, or patients and their families may have psychological distress as vigilance becomes more ominous in primary care. Cancer survivors transitioning from oncology care to primary care at a rural Minnesota health care facility may not receive the same vigilance of all the biopsychosocial elements obtained in oncology care; there is no standardization of screening for psychological distress by a cancer survivor in primary care unless patient and/or family self-reports or provider recognizes apparent symptoms of the psychological distress.

While radio- and/ or chemotherapeutic treatments are effective tools in treating certain cancers, a small population of cancer stem cells (CSC) can evade therapy which could be the reason for tumor recurrence and high rate of mortality. These CSC have the ability to bring the existence of new tumors and these are frequently found as multi-drug resistance (MDR) (Kawasaki et al., 2008). Chemotherapeutic drugs theoretically target the metastatic sites but current treatments do not exert significant therapeutic benefits in all cases (Soengas and Lowe 2003). Thus care should be taken to develop an alternative therapeutic strategy. Plant derived anticancer drugs are being considered more effective and safer for the patients, and do not have

Cancer is a disease that affects the lives of millions of people worldwide everyday, including students in the education system. This disease is covered under IDEA, and falls under the category of Other Health Impairments, which is defined as a medical condition that results in limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or acute health problems that affect a child’s educational performance or ability. There are many examples of Other Health Impairments, such as Diabetes, Tourette syndrome, asthma and heart conditions, but childhood Cancer is a common disease that affect many children in the world (Special Education Guide, 2016).

1.6 – 4.8% of all cancer in India is seen in children below 15 years of age and the overall incidence of 38- 124 per million children, per year. It is lower than that in the developed world. Yet, in India, cancer is the 9th common cause for the deaths among children between aged 5- 14 years1. The difference was observed in survival for children diagnosed with cancer between high and low income countries continues to widen as curative therapies are developed in the former but not implemented in the later in different studies2, 3, 4 . In addition, poverty, malnutrition, unhygienic living conditions, poor supportive care, financial support, training of health professionals, cultural, educational and socio-economic problems cause ongoing hurdle in medical cure and may contribute difference of survival rate. These play an important role in emergence of psychosocial problems in children suffering from cancer.