EYE CANCER

Eye Cancer

How ill If There's Disease in the Human Body. How ill, if we have cancer disease of the eye. Surely we feel is the pain and discomfort. Eye cancer (retinoblastoma) is a cancer that occurs in the area behind the eye that is sensitive to light (the retina). Cancer eye can affect people of all ages, but in general this disease affects children younger than 5 years. Based on American Cancer Society study, the number of children diagnosed with eye cancer to 200 people each year. Cancer can attack one or both eyes by way of eye bags and spread to the brain (via the nerve of sight).

Eye cancer (retinoblastoma) can strike children and adults. In Indonesia, until recently, the number of children who suffer from an estimated 9000 children eye cancer. Causes of eye cancer in one eye (unilateral) or both eyes (bilateral) children are not known for certain, so prevention becomes difficult. Eye cancer were allegedly associated with genetic abnormalities. There is a genetic problem that causes uncontrolled cell growth that should become unmanageable. Nevertheless, the impact of the disease can be reduced by early detection. Eye cancer found at an early stage can be cured. In fact, 90% of cases of eye cancer is detected early and get adequate treatment can be cured with a maximum.

Indeed, eye conditions can be maintained if the size of eye cancer is still below 0.5 cm. Although the specific symptoms of eye cancer in children is quite difficult to recognize, but there are common signs that should watch out for symptoms of eye cancer.

This type of eye cancer in children is often marked with reddish eyes, inflammation, and the presence of white spots on the eye black. If the condition is severe, the white spots will enlarge and reflect light into the eye like a cat's eye, crossed eyes, and protruding eyeballs out.

When the symptoms were found in children, parents should immediately take him to a hospital or other health care facilities so that doctors can help ensure the presence or absence of eye cancer in children. If he is diagnosed with eye cancer, then he should get the appropriate care and treatment of cancers and staged. If left alone or not treated properly, the tumor is growing and spreading to the bone marrow and brain. Obviously, these conditions would endanger the child and threatened her life.

Early stages of eye cancer can be treated by surgery (surgery), which can be combined with the consumption of chemical drugs (chemotherapy) and radiation radiating (radiotherapy). When the eyes of cancer was found in an advanced stage, then the operation by lifting the eye had to be done. After the operation, mounted Prosthetic (false eye) to keep the child look good and attractive.

Early detection of eye cancer can save children from malignant diseases that often lead to death. Only, the majority of cases of eye cancer discovered at an advanced stage.

Community and health workers at primary level have not had adequate knowledge about eye cancer, so do not know how to recognize signs of eye cancer and ways of handling it.

Eye cancer mostly attacks children under five years old (toddlers). This is because the immune system and growth of white blood cells unlike in healthy adults.

In children at that age, white blood cells are still weak. Meanwhile, if there are foreign substances that enter and activate the cancer cells in the body of the child, then there is no body's defenses strong enough to fight cancer cells, so the cancer continues to perform division and becomes cancerous.

In the United States, about 200 children diagnosed with retinoblastoma each year, and 40% of those experiencing positive tumors in both eyes.

In many cases, it is evident that the tumor is not susceptible to chemotherapy. As a result, many young people have to face two choices: to live in blindness, or survive with a high risk of death.

The page mentions bee health, has found a way to keep an eye on the vision and saving children with cancer eye. An eye doctor from the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, J. William Harbour, MD, mengimplantasikan radioactive discs in the eyes of children with rare cancers, ie retinoblastoma, in an effort to save their eyesight.

"Standard treatment for retinoblastoma is chemotherapy, followed by laser treatment and freezing to eliminate the last remnants of the tumor," said Harbour.

"But sometimes there will be tumors that do not respond to chemotherapy or too large to use a laser or freezing, because of where the plaque is inserted. Another way is to keep the eyes of the patient," he said.