The tumor of "Little Fatty" should not be ignored

The latest statistics from the Cancer Hospital show that the number of children with cancer is increasing day by day, and parents should be vigilant. In 2009 alone, the Children's Oncology Department of the Municipal Cancer Hospital treated 600 young patients from all over the country and completed 150 pediatric tumor surgeries. The youngest tumor patient admitted by the department was only 7 days old!

It is worth thinking about that yesterday was also the National Student Nutrition Day. The city-wide student physical health survey conducted by the health department showed that the nutritional imbalance rate of Tianjin students was as high as 21.59%, and the obesity rate was 16.26%, which was 8.93 percentage points higher than the national average student obesity rate. The obesity problem of children urgently needs to attract people's attention.

Nowadays, little fat kids are common in children's oncology wards. Obesity not only makes children a "reserve force" for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also lays a hidden danger for them to develop tumors. An unhealthy lifestyle, such as eating fast food, puffed food, drinking carbonated drinks, and lack of exercise, will cause excess calories and fat accumulation in the body, causing tumors. Children's eating snacks and being picky about food are related to their poor self-control ability on the one hand, but it is also closely related to their parents' spoiling, lack of nutritional knowledge and parents' neglect of educating their children about nutritional knowledge.

If a child has a prolonged, unexplained fever or his/her temperature fluctuates, if the child has stomach pain or bloating, or if a lump appears in the body, the child should be taken to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

Doctor: Three major causes of childhood tumors

"The nephroblastoma that Xiaojun suffers from is currently the most common malignant solid abdominal tumor, and its incidence ranks first among pediatric abdominal tumors. It used to occur mainly in children aged 2 to 4 years old, but now the incidence in children aged 5 to 14 years old has also increased." The director said that the cause of childhood tumors is still not very clear. In addition to obesity, some data show that it is also related to environmental, genetic and other factors. If parents have long-term exposure to metals, printing, coke, petrochemicals, etc., their children will also have a higher incidence rate.

The peak age of childhood tumor incidence is under 5 years old. Common tumors include malignant lymphoma, neuroblastoma, nephroblastoma, hepatoblastoma, etc. Some parents have a misunderstanding and believe that newborns are not suitable for surgery. In fact, childhood tumors are best treated within one year old, so "early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment" must be achieved. In fact, the average cure rate for malignant tumors in children is close to 70%, which is much higher than that of adults. Parents should never give up easily.