World Children’s Cancer Day emphasizes awareness, education and early diagnosis

The International Children’s Cancer Day, which falls on February 15 of each year; An educational awareness platform to identify the disease, appropriate medical treatment methods, early diagnosis, and to express support and care for children with cancer, survivors and their families; The Kingdom shares the world’s system of countries in celebrating this day with a number of targeted activities and programs that raise the level of knowledge, culture, awareness of the disease and methods of treatment in the community segments. The International Day of Children’s Cancer affirmed awareness, awareness, education and early diagnosis; For its effectiveness by reducing the deaths of cancer, increasing the rate of healing from it- God willing-, and providing the services of child cancer treatment, for contributing to the success of the treatment by up to 80%; An approximately 400,000 children and adolescents under 20 years old annually develop cancer.

The most common types of cancer among children are leukemia leukemia, brain cancer; It is considered one of the most famous types of cancer that affects young, lymphoma, and solid tumors, such as nerve tumors and Wills tumors; As the symptoms of child cancer differ, from one type and another. In brain cancer, the sick child suffers from vomiting, imbalance, persistent pain in the head and epileptic seizures.

In the case of leukemia, symptoms are a poverty in the blood, bleeding, bone pain and frequent infections, and for lymphoma cancer, swelling of the neck is observed, and in these cases parents notice the symptoms directly in the child and thus consult the doctor early, but in the case of abdominal cancer, The tumor is rarely noticed at its beginning, and in many cases, children reach the hospital while they are late in the disease, so that the treatment is no longer useful.

Several studies have shown; The causes of child cancer are not yet known; While a number of factors that may affect cancer were monitored; Among them are some cases associated with Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities, age for parents may increase the risk of childhood cancer, viral infection such as liver cancer, HIV, and exposure to ionized radioactive substances in childhood.

For its part, Sanad Charitable Society aims to support sick children with cancer; To support children’s cancer centers in the Kingdom with the financial or in -kind resources it needs and provide social and shelter services to patients and their needy families after conducting field research, in addition to preparing education and education programs for patients and their families on child cancer and how to deal with it; This is according to her vision of reaching every child who suffers from cancer in the Kingdom and we are a support for him and his family.

Through its mission, the association focuses on creating a supportive environment and recruiting support resources necessary to achieve comprehensive support for children with cancer through employing distinguished resources and services efficiently and effectively to mitigate the psychological and social effects on children and their families, transparency, credibility, and provide training and awareness programs for sick children and their families about cancer and how Dealing with it; Encouraging and supporting studies and research in the field of children’s cancer.