Mother did you know that cancer does not only affect adults, but also to attack your child. Cancer that usually attacks children under five are muscle cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma cancer.
With a loud voice, Sonia Rahayu fun sing Laskar Pelangi. The 11-year-old boy looks so excited. Behind cheerfulness, Sonia harbored the pain in his body
Two years ago, doctors pronounced the boy from Pandeglang, West Java, the cancer of the muscle. Probably very few people who know about the muscle cancer. Because this cancer is not so often override.
It is also said to be the Chairman of III Education & Counseling Indonesian Cancer Foundation Dr Sumarjati Arjoso, SKM. Muscle cancer incidence in Indonesia is 5 to 9% of all cancers in children were there, he said.
Muscle cancer in medical terms is called with rabdomyosarkoma. This cancer can affect muscles anywhere. In children usually in the head, neck, bladder, prostate, and vagina.
Muscle cancer is a type of malignant tumor disease that attacks the muscles called rhabdomyosarkoma, said surgeon Dr. Oncology Hospital Dharmais Denni Joko Purwanto Sp.B (K) Onk.
Symptoms of the disease begin varies, depending on location. In the cavity of the eye, can cause eye protruded, lumps in the eye.
The ear causing pain or bleeding from the ear hole. In the urinary tract causing urinary disorders. If the limb striated muscle, causing swelling. Clinical symptoms depend on the location of the cancer to grow, said a doctor who also practices at Omni Hospital Alam Sutera, Tangerang.
Denni said, the main complaint that often arises is that generally painless lump, and if it is more of an emphasis on dealing with complaints surrounding tissue. All ages can be attacked by this disease, said the doctor graduated from the University of Indonesia.
However, rhabdomyosarkoma is a type of soft tissue sarcoma that is often found in children (SJLA) is approximately 60% on SJLA under 5 years and approximately 23% in children 15-20 years old, and found to be slightly higher in boys , Former Head of the Division of Hematology Faculty of medicine / RSCM Prof.Dr. Gatot Djajadiman SpA (K), also said the same thing.
He mentioned, muscle cancer is indeed a lot of attacking toddlers. Although not known for certain, maybe it happens because the toddler activity increased so that there is interference with the muscles.
Maybe because it's basically already exists muscle cancer, coupled with increased activity, then tercetuslah muscle cancer on the child, said the doctor was born in Jakarta, August 11, 1944 this.
Similarly, at the time of adolescence. Muscle cancer is also a lot going on. Djajadiman said, why the age of toddlers and teenagers because at that time of rapid bone growth is also expected for muscle development is also fast. Just as the causes of other cancers, Dr. Denni explained, according to epidemiological data, muscle cancer is also not known with certainty the cause.
Cancer is a chronic disease that can be controlled with good treatment. The main modality is surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, said Dr. Denni who practice at the Hospital Karya Bakti, Bogor. Surgery is the main treatment modalities.
Operations in children and the elderly were the same technique. If the cancer attacks the limbs, should the act of sparring limb salvage operation is the function of the organ. Fortunately, the medical world is so aggressively looking for ways to treat this disease. Such as the discovery of new diagnostic tools such as CT scanning, MRI and even PET scanning helps a lot in terms of diagnostics is also the role of diagnostic histopathology.
Furthermore, Dr. Denni said, surgery techniques advances chemotherapy, radiotherapy is also a lot of progress. In fact, the progress of biomolecular targeting therapy now being developed.
Cancer can certainly experience a recurrence or distant metastasis. Therefore, the control routine is one of prevention efforts, he said.
Because the exact cause of the disease is not known, things to avoid this disease, prevention should be done is to eliminate risk factors.
Avoid chemicals, healthy lifestyle, and balanced is the key to avoid this disease, the message doctors who had conducted research on Biomolecular & Cancer Research, at the Tokyo Medical Dental University, Japan, in 2008.
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