Everyone has experienced losing a lost one. The pain that comes with it is just devastating and coping may be hard. Cancer is hard to deal with because it is an aggressive sickness that slowly takes control of the body. Cancer in a child is a long battle that comes with many obstacles; chemotherapy has physical and emotional damage, family issues, and facing the return of what one thought was the end.
Cancer in a child is not very common. If a child does have cancer most of the time is it acute lymphocytic cancer. (Zhang). Cancer is usually treated by chemotherapy which is a cancer fighting drug that can be inserted into a vein, muscle, cerebrospinal fluid, or just taken as pills. The side effects to chemotherapy may vary from hair loss, …show more content…
This is normal because everyone is different. Adjusting to this may be extremely challenging but having high levels of support may help with this. Family therapy may also help cope with this difficult situation. If there is more than one child in the family paying attention to them is vital. They are also going through this right along with the patient. Lots of siblings struggle with stress, anxiety, overwhelming, neglect, and guilt (Wray).
Even if all ends well are still downsides to it. Pediatric oncologist expert, Lisa Wray states “Every year, approximately 9,000 children are diagnosed with cancer and approximately 1,500 die as a result of the disease.” Therefore, the likelihood of them surviving is in their favor. Although the problem that they face is realizing the fact that there is a chance that the cancer may come back. It can be even harder to hear this because going through this battle once is hard enough going through this a second time would be a punch in the …show more content…
It is hard knowing that a child can die. The negative and emotional effects, and family problems that make this disease even harder to bare. However even if the cancer goes away there is always the chance that it may come back. All those emotions can rush towards the mind with just one sentence: Your child has cancer. Parents do not like to see their child suffer and would do anything to help take the pain away. The sad thing is they cannot just wave a wand and make it disappear. Together as a family they have to go through this hardship and overcome it.
Works Cited
"Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia." Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia. American Cancer Society, 17 Apr. 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2016.
Toro, Annie. "Psychological Impact of Childhood Cancer." (n.d.). American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
Wray, Lisa. "Chemotherapy." KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health. The Nemours Foundation, Feb. 2014. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
Zhang, Christine. "How Childhood Cancers Are Different from Adult Cancers" How Childhood Cancers Are Different from Adult Cancers: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. MedlinePlus, 13 Oct. 2015. Web. 13 Nov.
Cancer in a child is not very common. If a child does have cancer most of the time is it acute lymphocytic cancer. (Zhang). Cancer is usually treated by chemotherapy which is a cancer fighting drug that can be inserted into a vein, muscle, cerebrospinal fluid, or just taken as pills. The side effects to chemotherapy may vary from hair loss, …show more content…
This is normal because everyone is different. Adjusting to this may be extremely challenging but having high levels of support may help with this. Family therapy may also help cope with this difficult situation. If there is more than one child in the family paying attention to them is vital. They are also going through this right along with the patient. Lots of siblings struggle with stress, anxiety, overwhelming, neglect, and guilt (Wray).
Even if all ends well are still downsides to it. Pediatric oncologist expert, Lisa Wray states “Every year, approximately 9,000 children are diagnosed with cancer and approximately 1,500 die as a result of the disease.” Therefore, the likelihood of them surviving is in their favor. Although the problem that they face is realizing the fact that there is a chance that the cancer may come back. It can be even harder to hear this because going through this battle once is hard enough going through this a second time would be a punch in the …show more content…
It is hard knowing that a child can die. The negative and emotional effects, and family problems that make this disease even harder to bare. However even if the cancer goes away there is always the chance that it may come back. All those emotions can rush towards the mind with just one sentence: Your child has cancer. Parents do not like to see their child suffer and would do anything to help take the pain away. The sad thing is they cannot just wave a wand and make it disappear. Together as a family they have to go through this hardship and overcome it.
Works Cited
"Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia." Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia. American Cancer Society, 17 Apr. 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2016.
Toro, Annie. "Psychological Impact of Childhood Cancer." (n.d.). American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
Wray, Lisa. "Chemotherapy." KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health. The Nemours Foundation, Feb. 2014. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
Zhang, Christine. "How Childhood Cancers Are Different from Adult Cancers" How Childhood Cancers Are Different from Adult Cancers: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. MedlinePlus, 13 Oct. 2015. Web. 13 Nov.