The Symptoms of Leukemia in Children

The Symptoms of Leukemia in Children Dr. Travis Stork: September Health observances include childhood cancer in Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness which is of course do go hand in hand. It’s one of the most email requests on ProducetheDoctors.com. Now Leukemia causes more dash to children and teens in any other type of Cancer. People realize how common Leukemia is, there warning signs those kids and parents need to pay attention to. Dr. Jim Sears: Sometimes they’re kind of vague and you might ignore them for a few days or few weeks but bone or joint pain, bruising easily, belly pain, swollen lymph nodes, they often times get those kids get those in the neck but if they have a lot of them in their neck or if you’re feeling them low in the neck or even in the groin, definitely get those checked out. If your child’s getting sick a lot, frequent infections that’s often maybe a sign of Leukemia, if they’re looking pale or they’re just tired a lot or if they’re getting night sweats or if they’re having unexpected weigh loss, those are some of the symptoms to watch for and of course like I said those are pretty vague symptoms and most kids get those symptoms aren’t going to have Leukemia so all of you parents out there you don’t have to panic but just pay attention to these and get them checked out. Dr. Travis Stork: Now, leukemia doesn’t have to be a andesine there are treatments out there, Chemo Therapy, Radiation Treatments can be very effective and of course, Stem Cell Treatments are showing so much promise and there’s always new breakthroughs and in fact there’s an exiting new breakthrough for CML which is Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, this is one of the primarily affects adults, well John’s Hopkins University research suggest that a vaccine can reduce the cancer cells that are left behind after targeted cancer treatments making treatment more effective and if you want more on Leukemia lymphoma as well as all childhood cancer resources, go to our website we can also find out about other key health causes in the month that we just covered.