Posted at 06:48 on 2010-Dec-30 by Chair
LADIES AUXILIARY VFW
DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA
CANCER AID AND RESEARCH
JANUARY, 2011
Ladies:
As all 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 yearend 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 LEUKEMIAS:
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 classification are essential to the successful treatment and biologic study of the childhood leukemia. The leukemias are classified as acute versus chronic and as lymphoid versus myeloid. The vast majority of childhood leukemia cases are acute, unlike those in adults. The most common subtype, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, know as ALL, accounts for 75 to 80% of all childhood cases, with acute myeloid comprising approximately 20% and chronic myeloid leukemia comprising approximately 2%.
Careful examination of bone marrow is essential to establishing the diagnosis of leukemia because as many as 20% of patients with acute leukemia lack circulating blast cells at the time of diagnosis, and the morphology of leukemia cells in peripheral blood may differ from that in the marrow. Treatment 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 and Research and maybe one day it will be eradicated.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Will this be the year we find cures?
Chairman:
Dillie Staton
101 Brandymill Loop
Etowah, NC 28729
Phone: (828) 890-0539
