With a low incidence rate and a 70% survival rate in Spain, this disease continues to cause many deaths worldwide, especially in developing countries. February 15 marks the International Day of Childhood Cancer worldwide, instituted in Luxembourg in 2001.
This day seeks to raise awareness and raise awareness in society about the importance of this problem and the need for quick access to childhood cancer diagnosis and the right treatment.
The most common cancers in childhood are: leukemia (approximately 25%), tumors of the central nervous system (approx. 20%), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (approx. 6%), Hodgkin's disease (5%) and Wilms tumor in the kidney (5%), Ewing's sarcoma and thyroid cancer.
Despite the good diagnosis, according to the Spanish Association Against Cancer every year, in Spain, 1100 children receive a diagnosis of cancer, a great impact for the child and the family. Here are some of the news we have brought to Babies and more on this topic in recent months:
New Guide to Early Cancer Care in Children
These days on the occasion of the commemoration of International Childhood Cancer Day The Early Cancer Care Guide for children and adolescents has been presented, prepared by the Spanish Federation of Parents of Children with Cancer (FEPNC), the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP), the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics (AEPAP) and the Spanish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (SEHOP).
It is a document specially aimed at Primary Care professionals and includes diagrams with the symptoms and indicators of the main types of cancer that affect children and adolescents. Here we find the website from which information is provided and from where to download the guide.
We find, for example, references to the most frequent types of cancer in children we have mentioned above, with algorithms on when to suspect that the disease is suffered, symptoms ...
Remember that International Childhood Cancer Day It is an annual event created by the International Childhood Cancer Organization, CCI (formerly known as the International Confederation of Organizations of Parents of Children with Cancer, ICCCPO), a network formed by 177 local or national organizations of parents of children with cancer from 90 countries on all five continents
Like all of them, we think that no child or family should travel the cancer journey alone, a painful journey that needs a lot of support and attention. We hope this day will be useful for this and we are committed to thinking about children's cancer not only on this date.
