15-02-2021
Photo courtesy of the Rogachev Center press service
Artists of the Bolshoi Theatre perform for child cancer patients of the Dmitry Rogachev Centre during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
On International Childhood Cancer Day 2021, WHO/Europe highlights progressive ways to achieve better outcomes for children with cancer in the WHO European Region. The Russian Federation’s steps to merge paediatric haematology and paediatric oncology into one medical specialty is an inspiring example of how countries’ health and education systems can adapt to new methods and save children’s lives.
Childhood cancer: a different disease
Childhood cancers have fundamentally different characteristics and are being treated in different ways compared to “grown-up” oncological diseases. These cancer types are much more likely to be genetic and can develop before the child is even born.
A Co Down family whose son was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at just seven weeks old have urged people to support the charity which helped them through their most difficult days.
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The 20th International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) is being celebrated on 15th February 2021 with the purpose of spreading awareness about the High Curability of Childhood Cancer. Ritiesh and Genelia Deshmukh spent time at the pediatric ward of Tata Memorial Hospital to motivate the children and spread awareness on childhood…
A childhood cancer diagnosis has a devastating impact on a family, but a new app in Spain aims to give both parents and children the practical and emotional support they need.
Paula Rodriguez is the creator of a Spanish app Vivire con un Cencer Infantil (Living with Childhood Cancer) that helps people to track childhood cancer symptoms. When your child is diagnosed with cancer, a lot of emotions accumulate, she said. Among them fear, uncertainty, anger, incomprehension and we are overwhelmed by a lot of data such as diagnoses, prognoses, treatments, surgeries and transfers to other hospitals.
The app aims to accompany and inform families throughout the treatment process.