This community's purpose is to provide a place for parents and kids with cancer to support each other. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled divi...
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1) Demerol: I'll never forget a lecture I attended as a resident by a well known toxicologist who said Demerol should be pulled from the market...that it doesn't work any better than any other pain medication and patients love the high it gives them. The American Pain Society said in 2003 that Demerol has no role in acute pain management …
Today has been a good day. After weeks of preparation, my wife, mother, and oldest daughter headed over to a nearby school early this morning to prepare and set up for my daughter's Girl Scout troop's involvement in the local Relay for Life. Now for those who don't know (as I did not until just a few short weeks …
I knew it wasn't going to be a pleasant experience for both my daughter and me as we had been through this a few times before over the last few months...daddy pediatrician brings home the tongue depressor and a rapid strep test to determine whether strep throat has reared its ugly head once again. Already becoming uneasy on the ride home, I …
As most of you know, Farah Fawcett and Michael Jac...
DiRN Jun 29, 2009
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All of our heart kids are doing really well right ...
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Its official I hate my bed!! After spending ...
mummaof5p... Jun 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Lots of little tidbits mixed together, sounds like...
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Gotta make this quick... First and foremost, The f...
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My granddaughter is a Whoopie Cushion !!!
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Yesterday was such a fine, fine day. Went to churc...
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6 months and 3 days ago I was sitting up in the PI...
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Miracles, Squished sqash and two smooth stones
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So, another doctor and a new diagnosis. CFS ...
mummaof5p... Jun 10, 2009
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Having a nice, quiet peaceful week. Yippee. Coming...
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OK, lots of stuff to write about. Ethin is doing r...
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I don't know what I had, but it knocked me on ...
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Cancer can occur in young children and adolescents, but it is rare. Pediatric cancers, especially leukemia, are on an upward trend. Though some studies have not shown this, others done over a longer scale of time have so indicated.
The age of peak incidence of cancer in children occurs during the first year of life. Leukemia (usually ALL) is the most common infant malignancy (30%), followed by the central nervous system cancers and neuroblastoma. The remainder consists of Wilms' tumor, lymphomas, rhabdomyosarcoma (arising from muscle), retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.
Female and male infants have essentially the same overall cancer incidence rates, but white infants have substantially higher cancer rates than black infants for most cancer types. Relative survival for infants is very good for neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor and retinoblastoma, and fairly good (80%) for leukemia, but not for most other types of cancer.
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