Your child may have cancer if you feel one of the 7 complaints following as dizziness and vomiting in the morning, no enlargement of glands, pain in bones, a lump in the pit of the stomach, lump in the chest, bleeding or pancytopenia. The classified the children are those under 18 years old. We have to observe the physical changes kids, because they are difficult to express what happened to him.Cancer in children is only 2-4 percent of all cancers in humans. While child mortality due to cancer by 10 percent. Two types of cancer that many had by children is a cancer of the blood (leukemia) and cancers of the retina of the eye (retinoblastoma).
Children with cancer, 40 percent were infected with leukemia. Children aged 3-6 years old are most at risk. Symptoms that accompany such child was pale, listless, weak, fever is the cause is not clear, bleeding is not normal, to feel pain in the bones or joints, and swelling in the stomach and the gland.
Second, a retinoblastoma. Usually the cancer of this type to attack children aged 6 months - 2 years. Symptoms that can be detected as there are white patches in the black eyes seemed to shine (like a cat's eye), the eyes seemed to stand and cross-eyed.
Exact causes of cancer is unknown. But there are certain risk factors that could cause cancer, such as chemicals, substances pollutants, and viral infections.