is there any really effective treatment of neuroblastoma in children?
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Your best bet would be to get in touch with Neroblastoma researchers and doctors at St.Judes as they are the best hospital in the world.I spent almost 2 years straight there when my daughter was battleing a rare form of Leukemia.Called acute promyelocitic Leukemia. She's in remission after relapsign three times!
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depends on the cause but the fact the leg is regaining movement and the shoulder has some movement too is very hopeful.  childrens neurones have the ability to rewire them selves so u must continue exercises that should have been given to u at time of diagnosis.  keep up the muscle tone and prevent hypertonia (spasms) or hypotonia (floppy)this can be achieved by useing correctly fitted splints especially on the wrists. if the muscles spasms it is very hard to correct so is very important.  secondly the childs mental state about the condition is critical, maybe short term anti depressents will be required, but aim to keep up motivation about what child can do, not what they cant. get child into normal life asap.
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(m)\n\nNanotechnology Tackles Brain Cancer\n \n   \n\n Brain cancer can be counted among the most deadly and intractable diseases. Often diagnosed after a patient exhibits symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, uncharacteristic behavior changes, or paralysis, the growing mass of a brain tumor will continue to squeeze out normal tissue and degrade the brain’s function if left untreated. But treatment is elusive. Tumors may be embedded in regions of the brain that are critical to orchestrating the body’s vital functions, while they shed cells to invade other parts of the brain, forming more tumors too small to detect using conventional imaging techniques. Brain cancer’s location and ability to spread quickly makes treatment with surgery or radiation like fighting an enemy hiding out among minefields and caves, and explains why the term “brain cancer” is all too often associated with the word “inoperable.” \n\nMaking treatment even more challenging, there is a system of blood vessels and protective cells in the brain — the blood-brain barrier — that admits only essential nutrients and oxygen, and keeps out everything else, including about 95 percent of all drugs. This natural barrier puts serious limits on how much a patient can benefit from traditional chemotherapy and new cancer drugs. \n\nIn an ideal situation, we would have a “smart” drug that could cross the blood-brain barrier, zero in on the cancer cells, mark their location clearly for surgery, or destroy them with such precision that it would leave surrounding, normal brain cells intact. Until now, such a scenario seemed so far-fetched. But using nanotechnology, NCI-supported researchers at the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Virginia Commonwealth University are creating ultrasmall particles that can target and destroy cancer cells in the brain, even those in tumors too small to be removed surgically.
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Bladder cancer like any other cancer is a serious one only. It can not be cured with the shoot of TB. it will only complicate the problems. do not think of such ideas. \n\n\nNow Bladder Cancer - Much depends of the condition of the patient, Stage and Grade of the disease. The treatment of bladder cancer depends on how deep the tumor invades into the bladder wall. Superficial tumors (those not entering the muscle layer) can be "shaved off" using an electrocautery device attached to a cystoscope. Immunotherapy in the form of BCG instillation is also used to treat and prevent the recurrence of superficial tumors. BCG immunotherapy is effective in up to 2/3 of the cases at this stage. Instillations of chemotherapy into the bladder can also be used to treat superficial disease.\n\nUntreated, superficial tumors may gradually begin to infiltrate the muscular wall of the bladder. Tumors that infiltrate the bladder require more radical surgery where part or all of the bladder is removed (a cystectomy) and the urinary stream is diverted. In some cases, skilled surgeons can create a substitute bladder (a neobladder) from a segment of intestinal tissue, but this largely depends upon patient preference, age of patient ,renal function, and the site of the disease.\n\n\nA combination of radiation and chemotherapy can also be used to treat invasive disease, and, in many cases, it is not yet known which is the better treatment - radiotherapy or radical ablative surgery. If the disease is confirmed with all other details Consultation with an eminent Oncologist should be done immediately and as per his advise all the three treatment viz. Surgery, Chemo and Radiation Therapies should be done step by step with out taking any chance - as CANCER IS STILL AN ENIGMA.  Please have consultation with preferably Surgical Oncologist immediately. Best of luck.-
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Well, Brain tumors are not good as a general rule. My son had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.  It was in his brain stem. So it affected his breathing, his walking, ect.. but was able to always think clearly. He was fully aware of what was happening to him. I have know people to survive brain tumors. There is also a difference between brain cancer, and brain tumors. Most brain tumors are not maglignant. But treated as such. There is an excellant book call the primer for brain tumors. It is online. It explains all the types of brain tumors.
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A psychiatrist is probably the best option, but your regular physician or pediatrician can indeed perscribe pills for you.  The thing is, your parents have a major say in your treatment if you're covered by their insurance.  Good luck! I hope things work out.
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One  fo the best places to help with and they do a lot of good and that is St.Judes hospital.......Danny Thomas was the founder of this org,and now his daughter is taking over since his death.You could  contact St.Judes hospital and i am sure they could direct you.They help with a lot of cancer children,and most everything you give goes directly to the hospital to help the children.Another one is Feed The children foundation......................Good luck
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for advances in pediatric care, you really have to pick a time span. Antibiotics are huge, but not very recent. One can consider medicines like ritalin for helping kids concentrate
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Treatment can be very cheap, or even free.\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancercure-dandelion.htm
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That depends who you ask.  Many parents will tell you that their children "used to be autistic" and that through vitamin therapy, chelation and oxygen therapy they were cured.\n\nIf you ask your average pediatrician, they will tell you that there isn't even any TREATMENT for autism, let alone a cure.  But then, most doctors don't want to admit that heavy metal toxicity, or vacinations have anything to do with it.  (Most doctors won't admit zinc helps a cold..)\n\nOf course doctors want people to fear chelation- for the same reason they want you to fear vitamins and herbs- THEY, AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AREN'T MAKING ANY MONEY FROM IT!\n\nAsk an informed parent of an autistic child, and they're likely to tell you "Of course there's a cure.  It's called the DAN! Protocol."
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Your mom has one chance, it is called ozone therapy. It has been used for decades in Europe and many other countries. It is available in 5 states in the USA. Good luck, the link will give you all the technial info you can use. There are over 100 good alternative cancer treatments the second like is the beginning of the story.
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Yes. \n\nTechnically, any tissue type in any person can undergo the changes that will classify it as 'cancer'.\n\nIn practice though, there are reproducible statistics that can tell you the likely hood of getting any type of cancer. (Some are more common than others). Through prevention and treatment, you can alter these statistics in some populations.\n\nBreast cancer is not one of the commoner childhood cancers. \n\nTry searches for \npaediatric breast cancer or pediatric breast cancer.
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Research alternative cures. Over 100 are available, but your doctor isn't allowed to tell you about them.\n\nI have always believed that the mainstream medical industry is not interested in finding a cure for cancer because it makes too much profit with its present barbarous methods.\nEventually, I came across a detailed report which agreed with my findings, and I have included it in my web page at\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html\n\nBy reading this report, you will also convince yourself that it is best to ignore the mainstream cancer industry, and seek alternative cures. Also you should bear in mind that the medical industry will do anything to protect its profitable position, including disparaging alternative healers or even creating bogus court cases.\n\nI believe that cancer is a whole body thing, which in 80 percent of cases manifests itself by producing symptoms in the weaker parts of the body, and therefore appearing localised. It is this treatment of symptoms instead of cause which creates the profitable, yet non-successful approach of mainstream medicine.\n\nSome cures are listed on the web page too.\n\nIt is therefore obvious that a holistic approach is required, based on cleansing, diet, exercise and debugging.\n\nCLEANSING\nThe best way of cleansing is to fast.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org/menses.html\nhttp://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1996\n\nbut if a patient is too weak for that, or does not fancy the idea, then alternative cleanses are available.\n\n\nColon Cleanse\nhttp://www.soundfeelings.com/free/colon_cleansing.htm#recipe\nBowel cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/schulze/herbal_colon_cleanse_1_2.asp\nkidney cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/kidney/default.asp\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_12678_kidney-cleansing-fast.html\nhttp://www.falconblanco.com/health/cleansing/kidney.html\nhttp://www.healingdaily.com/colon-kidney-detoxification.htm\nhttp://www.healthfree.com/cleansing_programs_kidney.html\nLiver cleanse\nhttp://www.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/liver_cleanse.php\nGallbladder cleanse\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/default.asp\nhttp://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/huldas_recipe.asp\nPancreas cleanse\nhttp://curezone.com/dis/1.asp?C0=261\n\nDIET,\nThe best diet is vegetarian, avoiding all processed, frozen or micro-waved foods and drinks, and based on fresh fruit, fresh vegetables - preferably organic, nuts and seeds. Drinks should be clean water or freshly squeezed orange juice.\n\nMany researchers promote the benefits of vitamin B17 as a healer. this can be found in the following foods:\nApple seeds, alfalfa sprouts, apricot kernels, bamboo shoots, barley, beet tops, bitter almond, blackberries, boysenberries, brewer’s yeast, brown rice, buckwheat, cashews, cherry kernels, cranberries, currants, fava beans, flax seeds, garbanzo beans, gooseberries, huckleberries, lentils, lima beans, linseed meat, loganberries, macadamia nuts, millet, millet seed, peach kernels, pecans, plum kernels, quince, raspberries, sorghum cane syrup, spinach, sprouts (alfalfa, lentil, mung bean, buckwheat, garbanzo), strawberries, walnuts, watercress, yams.\n\nA commercial preparation of B17 is available called Laetrile.\n\nEXERCISE\nExercise should be sufficient to create a sweat, but not sufficient to make you gasp for breath or feel over-tired. About one hours exercise every day is best.\n\nDEBUGGING\nThere are various theories about how bugs create cancer.\n\nHulda Clark suggests that parasites are the cause, and that they can be disposed of by using a zapper.\n\nZappers are available from\n\nSuper Zapper DeLuxe\nhttp://www.drclark.net      Clark Zapper with amazing features get a free CD ROM\n\nhttp://www.paradevices.com/zapper_works.html\n\nTerminator Crystal Orgone Zapper Blood Purification Parasite Solution\nElectrical stimulation devices for blood purification, parasites, relaxation, and addictions.\nhttp://www.elixa.com/estim/zap.htm\n\nHigh frequency parasite zappe
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Yes.\nAny infection is dengerous to anyone who has an immune-supressing condition ie cancer. The fever will be even more dangerous if the child is recieveing chemotherapy as this attacks the cells which fight off infections. \nWow I've learnt something after all of these months in treatment!
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Recently I treated two children with ADD, I am giving them these two Homeopathic remedies and both are coming along very well without any side effects or complications the remedies I am using are AVENA SATIVA in Q(Mother Tincture potency) 20 drops thrice a day in a sip of warm water and the cell salt KALI PHOS in 6X potency every four hours two tablets dry on the tongue let them dissolve on the tongue. Both children have been taking it for more then 15 days now and their mothers are extremely happy with the results and so am I !\nTake Care and God Bless you. \n\nP.S\nAVENA SATIVA is Common Oats !
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No, not from how you have described the situation. But you should be careful of infection. \n\nIf, at some point, it does not heal it might be a good idea to have a dermatologist biopsy or evaluate it for you. Keep an eye on it.\n\nIncidentally, when my son was little he had a mole on his neck that kept getting bigger so we had a surgeon remove it. We thought we were protecting him against cancer . . . little did we know that despite doing all we could to protect him a few years later he developed an abdominal cancer. All that time and we worried about the wrong thing! The mole was not the problem . . turns out the tumors were in his abdomen.
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I hope you are asking with only good intentions.  St Jude's hospital has a site with photos of children they are treating who have cancer.