• April 20, 2024

February 15 commemorates the International Day of Childhood Cancer. This date seeks to sensitize the population of the struggle that children and adolescents face to overcome this terrible disease.

It is important to learn to detect early signs of this evil that scourges both the family and the minor; so that they receive comprehensive support, not only medical, but emotional and often economic.

In an interview for GetQoralHealth, José Carlos Gutiérrez Niño, director of institutional development of AMANC , explains that unfortunately most of the children who are diagnosed with some type of cancer do not have medical services or IMSS or of the ISSSTE.

The cases with the highest incidence in hospitals in our country are leukemia. There is a greater emphasis on children from 5 to 14 years old, since food is an important factor, but also the environment and contaminants in soil, water and air ".

 

Warning signs in healthy children

• Pallor
• Weightloss
• Fatigue
• Red spots on the skin
• Bruises
• Bone-ache
• Articulations pain
• Fever without infection
• Abdomen bulge
• Hemorrhages

The problem is that the medical culture always attends first symptoms of cancer Like any other infection, children do not react to treatment and try another. Time is a very important factor.

The first attempt is with antibiotics, then with antiparasitic and the problem is that the problem gets more complicated. The great ignorance of the disease traps the family and there is no preparation in this regard, because it is unknown that a less can get cancer

Hence the complexity with parents who feel guilt because they believe that it is a divine punishment, is a total ignorance of the subject ” 

 

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