– Pain, fever, inflammation that does not go away: these may be symptoms of cancer. It is better to exclude it than to wait, after all, almost half of the children admitted to oncological dispensaries already have metastases. In some cases, even a few days of delay can be life-threatening. Anna Raciborska, an oncologist, explains that children have a good chance of being cured. Even when the child was already born with cancer.
Katarzyna Pinkos, Wprost: For an adult, a diagnosis of cancer means the collapse of the world, but for a child, such a diagnosis is like a bolt from the blue. Do many children see an oncologist with advanced cancer?
Now less than at the peak of the pandemic, when the situation was very bad. However, about half of the patients who come to our clinic have already become infected. Held on for too long.
What do parents miss?
The problem is that there is no single symptom when we immediately say: it’s cancer. Symptoms may vary. Sometimes a child complains of pain due to an injury. He goes to the doctor, who observes and prescribes symptomatic treatment. The child comes in 1-2 weeks, as the treatment did not help, but the doctor still prescribes symptomatic treatment.
This is a mistake, because if after standard treatment the symptoms do not improve, it is necessary to take tests. And it happens that a parent goes with a child from doctor to doctor, the child undergoes rehabilitation (which also does not bring any effect). After 6-7 months he comes to us and it turns out that the disease is already in many places.
If one of our last patients had had an x-ray within 6 months, the child would have reached us much sooner.
What symptoms did the child have?
Source: Wprost
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