Facing Cancer in Children

Having a child with cancer is very sad, even for families who brave though. The best approach is to be honest with children about illness and always give support.

Cancer most often affects children is leukemia, lymphoma, retinoblastoma (eye cancer), and bone cancer is a type of cancer that primarily affects children.

The goal of cancer treatment the children not only cope with cancer but also helps the child can continue to behave normally in accordance with the level of his age. Even though your child is important to be supported and comforted, it is also important to maintain life as normal as possible.

That means kids stay abreast of the schedule, rules, and family activities. This means parents are not being overprotective or overly protective of her.

"The key word was just one, give the fullest support possible. Do not ever shunned and ostracized. Permanent view of him as the children in general, without having to be protected, "Erwin said Fauzi, coordinator of volunteers Yellow Ribbon Foundation Children Indonesia, who met in Dharmais Hospital on Wednesday (07/06/2011).

According to Erwin, protection will encourage excessive psychological and emotional condition of a child to become unstable. So rather than cure, but it will generate a cancer cell.

"If the mood is not comfortable it will encourage the cancer cells in the body become more active," he added.

In addition to providing support and freedom, the one thing that is not less important is being honest about the child's illness. "Children who are not informed about the disease would imagine something that is absolutely untrue," he said.

For example, a child may think that his cancer illness is a punishment for him due to a delinquency or a specific error.

"It was agreed with that by telling, would make the child become less stressed and feel guilty. Children are entitled to know about his illness. Regardless of age, "he explained.

Furthermore, Erwin said, children who know the real situation will be easier to be invited to cooperate especially in the treatment process that must be lived. In addition, cancer discuss with the child will bring the atmosphere of the family become closer and simple way to deal with it.