VFW NC Ladies Auxiliary: Cancer Aid & Research

Cancer Aid & Research December 2010

Posted at 12:55 on 2010-Dec-2 by Chair

 

CANCER AID and RESEARCH

LADIES AUXILIARY VFW

DEPARTMENT OF NC 

Ladies,

 

As all of our holidays are coming to an end it really is time for us to get busy with our

Cancer program. Be sure you have checked to see if you have completed everything that your

year-end report requires. If you have not please do so as soon as possible. All of you know this is the way awards are won. BY YOUR HARD WORK!!!!!!!

 

CHILDHOOD LUKEMIAS

 

This is a topic we all dislike to hear about,but it is very real.  There is a growing concern about Children with cancer.  Precise diagnosis and classifaciation are essential to the successful

treatment and biologic study of the childhood lukemias. The lukemias are classsified as acute versus chronic and as lymphoid versus myeloid.  The vast majority of childhood lukemia cases are acute, unlike those in adults.  The most common subtype, acute lymphoblastic lukemia known as (ALL) accounts for 75% to 80% of all childhood cases, with acute myeloid comprising approximately 20% and chronic myeloid lukemia approximately 2%.

 

Careful examination fo bone marrow is essential to establishing the diagnosis of lukemia because as many as 20% of patients with acute lukemia lack circulating blast cells 

at the time of diagnosis,and the morophology of lukemia cells in peripheral blood may differ from that in the marrow. Trearment of individual cases should be based on primary disease process.

 

Every parent and grandparent should be aware of all the childhood cancers. Again as in every type of cancer early detection is the first step.

 

Let's all do our part and more for cancer aid research and maybe one day it will all be eradicated.

            MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

Dillie Staton,Chairman

101 Brandymill Loop

Etowah,NC 28729