On February 15, the International Childhood Cancer Day is celebrated around the world. For the first time, this day was held in 2002 by the international organization of children’s cancer (Childhood Cancer International, CCI).
International Children’s Day, Cancer Patients – Global Joint Awareness Campaign on Children’s Oncology and Support Sick Children’s Children. The symbol of the fight against childish oncology is the golden ribbon. Gold as a precious metal symbolizes the precious treasure, which are for parents their children.
Modern medicine, unfortunately, cannot accurately call the reasons for the appearance of this disease in children. Only the prerequisites for the occurrence of cancer tumors are established, which include genetic predisposition, carcinogenic effects (environmental pollution and the presence of toxic substances in the composition of the environment), as well as the pathology of the fetus during the period of intrauterine development.
Head of the Children’s Oncology Clinic Department of the National Center for Oncology of the Ministry of Health Reiman Ismailzade talks in an interview about the activities of the clinic, children who are diagnosed with cancer, signs of leukemia in children.
– Tell us about the history of the creation and activities of the children’s oncological clinic …
– In March 2012, the Children’s Clinic of the National Center for Oncology (NCCO) of the Ministry of Health took place. The clinic performs an important feature in solving one of the global problems of modern medicine – the fight against cancer complications in children.
Currently, the Children’s oncological clinic NCC is the flagship in the whole region. Here at a very high level, a comprehensive treatment is carried out – chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgical treatment, immunotherapy, etc. The clinic has children’s school surgery, children’s chemotherapy, children’s radiation therapy and children’s anesthesiology and resuscitation.
– how many children last year were diagnosed with cancer?
– In 2021, 170 children with onco-scabers were diagnosed in the clinic, all of them were treated on relevant protocols.
It should be noted that children’s oncology has fundamental differences from adult. Children’s cancellation in children make up about 1-1.5% of all malignant neoplasms. The main part of the oncology in children constitute embryonic tumors. Among children are often found leukemia (28 percent), tumors of the central nervous system (18-20 percent) and lymphoma (12-14 percent). Other malignant neoplasms, such as nephoblastoma, neuroblastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma, are 6-7 percent.
Cancer diseases occurring in adults (tumors of the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, breast cancer, bladder, prostate gland, etc.), extremely rare in children. Modern methods of treatment give the best results, in connection with which most children with oncology are possible complete recovery.