Childhood Leukemia Treatment Side Effects

Learning problems are often associated with radiation therapy targeted at the brain.

Childhood leukemia treatment side effects.

You will learn more about coping with the physical emotional social and financial side effects of childhood cancer and its treatment. This page includes several links outside of this guide to other sections of this website. Treatment may involve antibiotics blood transfusions. Less than 1 of children who have received standard therapy for all develop aml.

Use the menu to see other pages. Every cancer treatment can cause side effects or changes to your child s body and how he or she feels. She published a research paper in september last year showing that childhood all survivors are more likely to have difficulties with memory and inhibition or voluntary restraint of motor actions than children who have not had leukemia. Red cells anemia platelets thrombocytopenia white cells called neutrophils and monocytes neutropenia and.

Side effects and complications. For example changes in blood cells can lead to infections or severe bleeding and may affect the amount of oxygen reaching the body s tissues. More rarely children treated for leukemia may later develop non hodgkin lymphoma or other cancers. In addition chemotherapy is toxic to both normal blood cells and aml.

Dr van der plas specializes in looking at the neurocognitive effects of childhood leukemia treatment. Depending on the leukemia treatment given it can lead to medical conditions including. This occurs in a small percentage of patients after getting certain chemotherapy drugs such as epipodophyllotoxins etoposide teniposide alkylating agents cyclophosphamide chlorambucil or anthracyclines daunomycin doxorubicin. Low blood cell counts.

One of the most serious possible side effects of acute lymphocytic leukemia all therapy is a small risk of getting acute myeloid leukemia aml later on. One of the most serious side effects of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia all is the chance of developing acute myelogenous leukemia aml. Weighing the long term effects of childhood leukemia treatment.