Radiology and Oncology

Paediatric Oncology

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Paediatric Cancer is rare but unfortunately nowadays many child deaths main cause is cancer. Cancers that are exclusive to children are Neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, Rhabdomyosarcoma, retinoblastoma. Currently, it is estimated that there are 350,000 adult survivors of childhood cancer in the United States. Children who survive cancer have more years than adults to develop long-term consequences of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which include Infertility, Poor growth, Cardiac damage, Development of second cancers.

Treatment for Children’s cancers is not always like adult cancers. Paediatric  Oncology is a subspecialty which only focused on the child cancer patients. Treatment for child cancer depends on the type of cancer and common types of treatment are surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, stem cell transplant.