The Science And Nature Of The Disease

‘“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.

Cancer is a word which evokes many different images and emotions. Nothing in this world can prepare a person for the utter devastation of finding out someone has been diagnosed with cancer, especially when this person is a child. Over the past twenty five years the amount of research and the survival rate for children suffering with cancer have increased dramatically. Despite these successes, the funding for new research necessary to keep these children alive and healthy is miniscule and too dependent on short term grants. Of the billions of dollars spent each year on cancer treatments and research less than a third is contributed to researching pediatric cancer. Given the media focus on adult cancers, research for pediatric cancer is

1. Most cancers incidence peak among children occurs during the first year of life. Some of the most well-known nationwide childhood cancers are leukemia, brain cancer, and other central nervous system cancers. The side effects of treatment, which range from heart disease to brain

Major sponsors of this laboratory usually came from The Kids Cancer Care in Alberta, The Canadian Institute for Health Research, The Alberta Cancer Research Institute, The Tom Baker Cancer Centre, The Hotchkiss Brain Institute, The National Cancer Institute of Canada & The Alberta Cancer Foundation. However, the Terry Fox Research Institute, the Alberta Cancer Foundation, and others organizations had also recently funded Dr. Chan 's research team by eight million dollars,

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the number one worldwide organization for children's cancer and other serious childhood diseases. “St. Jude has helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20 to 80 percent”(Young). With your help the families of the children with illnesses pay absolutely nothing throughout their time and stay at St. Jude, making their child's condition and health their only and number one priority (About St. Jude’s Research Hospital). The amount of money that is donated to this hospital benefits not only the patients there, but convalescent’s all around the globe. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is an organization in which you should donate your money because all of the money goes into paying for the patients’ care and stay, the breakthroughs that they make are shared so doctors everywhere can help more children, and they have improved the survival rate of children’s cancer.

Through the study, I have found out that there is minimum research in pediatric cancer and many parents from poor families find it difficult to pay for medical fee. In addition, funding for research will be effective in curbing the effects of cancer in children even as they transit to adulthood.

I. Open with Impact: About 15,270 children ages 19 or under will be diagnosed with cancer this year. (National Cancer Institute, 2017)

In 2007, the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children in Victoria, merged with the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children in Australia which was trading as Redkite

Every year thousands of children, in the United States alone, are diagnosed with some form of cancer and more cases are occurring each year. When thinking about cancer we often associate it with adult cancers. Throughout the year there are certain days and months dedicated to supporting awareness of specific types of cancers that mainly occur in adults. Although there is some focus on childhood cancer, it does not get as much attention as with adult cancer, because of this there is also less focus on funding childhood cancer research. With a rise of pediatric cancer diagnoses, researchers should take advantage of the modern day technology available and focus some of the attention away from adult cancers and begin to put efforts into finding

The body is made up of hundreds of millions of living cells. Normal body cells grow, divide, and die in an orderly fashion. During the early years of a person’s life, normal cells divide faster to allow the person to grow. After the person becomes an adult, most cells divide only to replace worn-out or dying cells or to repair injuries. Cancer begins when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. There are many kinds of cancer, but they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cell (American Cancer Society, 2010).

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

Neuroblastoma (NB) is a common type of cancer in the early stage of childhood life, more specifically; it is known to be a disease of infancy. It is closely associated with a defect in the neuroblast differentiation process, as it plays a role in developing tissues. One of the most challenging aspects of treating NB is the variation in response to therapy among patients. This is, in part, due to the heterogeneity of the disease, which presents phenotypic differences in patients ranging from spontaneous regression of NB with unnecessary therapy to successful therapy to a more aggressive form with unpredictable outcomes. Much of the focus on understanding reasons for treatment failure has been directed toward a subgroup within the aggressive

Geneva, New York may be small, but it is surely a family oriented, loving and diverse community. Although there are many opportunities to help friends and neighbors in need such as can drives, school supply giveaways and neighborhood “clean up” committees, there are not as many available opportunities to gather the community together as a whole. My project, “Kickback for a Cure” would allow every person, young or old, to enjoy the company of their friends, family and even strangers to support a cause that nearly everyone has been affected by; cancer.

1. Leukemias (blood cancers) and brain cancers combined account for more than half of all new cases of pediatric cancer.

Cancer, one of the most feared words in our vocabulary of this time, especially in childhood (Druker 1). Most people when thinking of “childhood cancer” envision very young children, although a “Nation Institute of Health Policy concerning inclusion of children in clinical research defines children as being younger than twenty-one years of age while the Food and Drug Administration considers children to be fifteen years and younger” (Ries 158). That being said, most cancers incidence peak among children occurs during the first year of life (Gurney 149). Some of the most well-known nationwide childhood cancers are leukemia, brain cancer, and other central nervous system cancers (oeconline 1). In conjunction, “the side effects of treatment,