A potential side effect of chemotherapy treatment is an issue with taste — either food not tasting like anything or a bitter or metallic taste in one’s mouth. Food for Children with Cancer going through Chemotherapy is important because they need to keep up their strength and maintain weight. Why does this happen, and what […]
CINV Affects Patients Economically & Emotionally
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common — and often costly — problem among patients with cancer. Chemotherapy is the use of specific drugs, administered by a paediatric oncologist, to destroy cancer cells by preventing the cancer cells from growing and dividing to make more new cells. Cancer cells generally grow and divide much faster […]
Complementary and Alternative Therapies: What You Need to Know
It’s impossible to describe the pure, desperate frustration that is a fact of daily life when you have a child with cancer. Here at the Little Fighters Cancer Trust we know what parents go through because we hear the stories every day, and we follow each of our Little Fighters’ battles. When the bad news […]
Chewing Difficulties in Childhood Cancer
Symptom Management, Palliative Care, or Supportive Care to relieve side-effects is an important part of cancer care and treatment and should always form part of the overall treatment plan. Difficulty in chewing occurs when mouth pain, problems with the teeth, or stiffness or pain in the jaw muscles make it difficult for an individual to eat certain foods, […]
New Service Transforms Childhood Cancer Treatment
Children with cancer in the UK are to benefit nationally from a service which for the first time will allow doctors to personalise their treatment. The therapeutic drug monitoring service, developed by Newcastle University experts, allows clinicians to obtain vital information about how much chemotherapy individual young patients should receive. Youngsters diagnosed with cancer, […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
