Variety 1
The child with this cancer should not have the abdomen palpated.
What is Wilms tumor?
An embryonal cancer only diagnosed in infants and children.
What is Neuroblastoma?
What is the average age of diagnosis for a child?
What is 6 years old.
Performed to detect leukemic cells in the spinal fluid
What is lumbar punture?
Anterior or posterior iliac crests or tibia
These (Chemotherapy, Radiation, Surgery, Immune-based therapies, Bone marrow transplants) are ____________.
What are treatments?
A cancer that generally develops during puberty and occurs primarily in the distal femur and proximal tibia. The most common bone cancer of childhood cancer.
What is Osteosarcoma.
This type of leukemia is more common in boys and peaks between 2 and 3 years of age.
What is ALL?
The treatment for ALL is divided into 3 phases.
Waht are induction, consolidation, and maintenance?
Given to prophylactically to prevent a relapse in the CNS
What is intrathecal chemotherapy
Rare, malignant tumor of the embryonic neural retina
What is retinoblastoma?
A cancer which is commonly discovered by the findings of anemia, especially if accompanied by reticulocytopenia or a high mean corpuscular volume, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia or leukocytosis.
What is Leukemia.
Signs of bone marrow failure
What are decreased rbcs, wbcs and platelets?
Actions to take- apply gentle firm pressure to puncutre sites, check urine and stool for blood
What is thrombocytopenia?
Hallmark signs of brain tumors
What are headache and morning vomiting
A muscle or striated tissue mlgnancy that often occurs periorbitally, in the head and neck in younger children.
What is Rhabdomyosarcoma
The generally preferred method of imaging in a child suspected of an intracranial or CNS space-occupying lesion.
What is MRI.
Most common sites of infiltration to extramedullary
What are CNS and testes
1000-1500 ANC
What is minimal risk for infection?
Skin damage, hair loss, nausea and vomitng and low blood counts
What are side effects of radiation and chemotherapy
The FOUR most common childhood cancers.
What is leukemias, lymphomas, brain tumors, and bone cancers.
The most diagnostic test for leukemia
What is bone marrow aspiration
The neutrophil count is less than 500 mm3
What is severe risk for infection?
Broad term for leukemias not originating from lymphocytes
What is ANL (acute myeloid leukemia)?