Why Kids Get Cancer?

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It is true that there are not as many instances of kids getting cancer as adults, but they do. Kids do get cancer & it can also be cured in most cases. With each passing year survival rate of kids has been going up because of medical researches & breakthroughs.

Kids get cancer when cells go through an abnormal rate of growth and division, just as in adults. Thus the reason why cancer happens is alike for everyone. When cells that are not normal, they grow and spread fast in the affected part of our body and the result is cancer. Normal body cells grow and divide and know when to stop growing. Over a period of time, they die and are replaced by new cells. Like such normal cells, cancer cells simply keep growing and divide out of control and don’t die.

Cancer cells group together and thus tumors are formed. A growing tumor can adversely affect healthy cells around the tumor and damage body’s healthy tissues. There is a possibility of these cancer clumps to break away from their original position and spread to other parts of the body. This is how cancer spreads to other parts of the body and this process is called metastasis.

Let us come back to the core issue about why kids get cancer. But before that we shall discuss some important facts about kids’ cancer. Researchers and cancer specialists are not is a position to confirm why some people/kids get cancer and others don’t. They know fro a fat that cancer is not contagious or infectious. A kid or an adult for that matter will get cancer by simply coming in contact with someone else who has it. Cancer has nothing to do with germs, like that of colds and the flu. There is therefore no need to be afraid of other kids or adults who have cancer. You can allow your child to talk to, play with, and touch someone who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Cancer is caused by some unhealthy habits like smoking cigarette or consuming alcohol beyond permissible limits on a regular basis. Such habits at a young age make you prone to cancer when you become an adult.

Kids can get some specific types of cancer like Lymphoma, Brain Cancer and Leukemia (connected to blood and organs forming blood like bone marrow). The treatments are more or less the same as in adults such as Chemo, Radiation, and Surgery. After treating the kid with any of the above methods doctors do a test to find out if the cancer has completely been removed. If no signs of cancer are observed, then the kid is said to be in remission. The good news here is that for majority of kids, continued remission is a very happy ending for them and more importantly for their parents’ cancer experience.