Childhood Cancers
Discussion List
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Siblings effects on children with cancer
I am looking for answers from anyone willing to give them. An infant was just diagnosed with Cancer. He has had surgery to remove the tumor and other infected areas and is currently undergoing a low regimine of chemo for 4 months. He has been allowed to return home. However the situation is that he is from a split home…
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Anaplastic Astrocytoma
A little girl two and a half years old has Anaplastic Astrocytoma WHO Grade 3. She underwent radiation treatment together with chemotherepy. Upon conclusion of treatment the tumor has shrunken 75% The proposed plan for now is 10 cycles of chemotherepy (Tamador) 5 days per month. Please, can anyone share with us their…
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6 year old Diagnosis with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Our 6 year old son was diagnosis with AML on July 17th. Last week we found out that his cytogenetics came back showing FLT3-ITD. Which means that he will need to have a bone marrow transplant in order not to relapse when he is in remission. We are at a hospital that is 90 miles from our home town, and our younger son is a…
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anyone who has had or knows someone with osteosarcoma...
looking for anyone who has delt with osteosarcoma....my 11yr old son was diagnosed Jan 2009, he had his surgery in May, is having a hard time with the chemo...would be great for him to know someone who went through or is going through the same thing that he is now...