Difficult Child Cancer Detected

Compared with other diseases, cancer is still a leading cause of death in children of school age and pre school. One possible cause is cancer in children is difficult to detect. This resulted in most of the patients were taken for treatment at an advanced stage.

That is why it is important for parents to always check the health of her child to the doctor and be alert to any signs and symptoms that are not usually in children.

"The key is if the child is not early detection but knowing the symptoms," said dr. Edi Setiawan Tehuteru, SpA, of Dharmais Cancer Center Hospital, Jakarta who met Thursday (7 / 7).

According to Edi cancers in adults can be detected, for example by way of BSE (Breast Self-Check) for the detection of breast cancer and Pap smear for early detection of cervical cancer.

While in childhood cancers, the most important known parents are alert to unusual symptoms in children, considering the many types of cancer in children is that the retinoblastoma (eye cancer) that can be detected.

Causes of cancer in children is not known but Eddie insisted that lifestyle and healthy eating should still be taught to children early on. The aim is not to prevent cancer, but to prevent when children reach adulthood, they can avoid the various types of cancer that usually strikes adults.

Most leukemia

The most common cancer in childhood is a leukemia or blood cancer. May be said almost a third of the cancers occurring in children is leukemia.

The disease is usually diagnosed during routine blood tests done which showed abnormal results. According to Edi, symptoms can be seen in patients with leukemia is eritrosis low blood levels so that the child looks pale.

In addition, children often experience fever without a known cause of leukocytes in the blood due to low or bleeding, nosebleeds, and may also be due to low platelet levels.

"When children have all three of these symptoms, a child could be exposed to childhood leukemia is suspected. Immediately take the child to the doctor to confirm whether the symptoms experienced can be categorized as a sign of leukemia, "he added.

Furthermore Edi said, the faster or early childhood leukemia in children was found, the greater the likelihood of a cure. So it is important for parents to be aware of symptoms of cancer in children early on, especially leukemia.

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Cancer More Deadly in Men

Although both suffering from cancer, turned out to women's chances for survival against the disease is greater than the men. A study says men are at high risk of dying from cancer.

The report, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention that analyzed the survival rate for 5 years from 36 types of cancer.

Differences in life expectancy seen in the most obvious cases of oral cancer in which 100,000 people from 5:51 to 1 woman dead man, followed by 5.37 larynx cancer, hypopharynx cancer and esophageal cancer 4.47 4.08 compared to 1 woman.

The same trend is also seen in cancers that have the highest mortality tingka, namely lung cancer that kills 2.31 ​​men to 1 woman and colorectal cancer that kill men than a woman's 1.42.

While the numbers of pancreatic cancer was 1.37 of a woman, leukemia and liver cancer 1.75 2.23.

Researchers say a bit difficult to explain why there gender differences in life expectancy, but the alleged behavior is also different tumors as well as differences in treatment obtained. For example, research that says men are generally diagnosed when the cancer is in advanced stage cancer compared with women.

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Obesity Trigger Breast Cancer

Obesity or overweight is a major cause of excess breast cancer in older women. Following the second is alcohol and cigarettes. According to research conducted at the Cancer Research UK.

According to research data, one in eight women in the UK suffer from breast cancer in her life. The majority of these tumors are sensitive to the hormone or in other words, the growth of this humor gets a "fuel" by the hormone. Piles of fat in the body will increase female sex hormones.

Research has shown that postmenopausal women with estrogen and testosterone levels are high-risk two to three times more likely to develop breast cancer than women with lower hormone levels.

There are several factors that cause levels of sex hormones in the body increases, such as pregnancy, contraceptive pill use, and menopuase.

In a recent report published in the British Journal of Cancer is mentioned, obesity should be in the order of the first trigger of obesity due to lifestyle factors is something that is still controlled.

The team of researchers from Oxford University in research funded Cancer Research UK studied the health data 6300 postmenopausal women to look for factors that could explain why some breast cancers are sensitive to hormones and some will not.

Female body weight is strongly suspected to be causing an increase in sex hormones. Women who are overweight or obese have higher levels of estrogen and progesterone is higher.

Similarly, women who used alcohol and smoked more than 15 cigarettes per day.

"Breast cancer is influenced by family history and age, but there are things you can do to reduce risks. Maintain healthy weight and reduce alcohol consumption is the key to avoid breast cancer," said Dr Julie Sharp of Cancer Research.

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