The types of cancers that develop in children are different from those that develop in adults. Lifestyle or environmental risk factors don’t play a role. Instead, it’s usually the result of DNA changes in cells that take place very early in life.
Brandee Aquilino, PsyD, MA, and Kristen Fix, LMSW, joined this week's Roswellness Radio to discuss childhood cancers and their effect on not only the patient, but the entire family. They list common issues faced during a pediatric cancer diagnosis, and also touch on available resources for patients and families.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and is also celebrated as Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. I’d like to recognize both by sharing with you a research project that is aimed at improving treatment options for lymphoma, which is the third most common type of childhood cancer and also one of the most common in adolescents and young adults.
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More patients are being diagnosed with cancer every day.
Here at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, we must continue to do what we do best – to understand, prevent and cure cancer. Because if we don’t, cancer wins. And Cancer Can’t Win.
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