An incredible amount of people still believe that cancer is an “old person’s” disease, or at least an “adult” disease and are shocked when they find out that this is not so.
This is especially true in Africa, especially in the rural areas where information that we take for granted since the advent of the worldwide web and Google is not available, and old beliefs and cultures rule.
This belief is also true partly because, 99% of the time, cancer IS a malady tied to age. The cells in our bodies sometimes lose their battle against the toxins we’re exposed to, the sedentary lifestyles we lead, the viruses we contract as we go about our adult lives, and our genetic predispositions, and proliferate uncontrollably.
The approximately 1% of remaining cancers occur in children. It’s a particularly cruel reality when infants, toddlers, and teenagers draw the proverbial short straw despite their comparatively unpolluted anatomies.
We are, however, more hopeful when it comes to children’s cancer, because young bodies tolerate aggressive chemotherapy far better than older ones, and survival rates among children are higher in most of the world.
Some of the reasons for this hope are:
Children Get Different Types Of Cancer Than Adults
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