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 […]
A Stranger Comes To Call Some weeks ago through medical doubt I met someone I’d heard lots about I never thought our paths would cross Our meeting left me at a loss. I’d had no contact with this guy He picked me out…… I wonder why?
“Close the Care Gap” is the theme for World Cancer Day 2022-2024. Each year on 4 February, World Cancer Day empowers all of us across the world to show support, raise our collective voice, take personal action and press our governments to do more. World Cancer Day is the only day on the Global Health […]
In South Africa, many many more children die of cancer each year than is necessary. In this modern era of high-tech medical treatment some 70% of childhood cancers are completely curable…
…if diagnosed in time!
How is it then that in South Africa we only have a 20% survival rate for childhood cancer? How?
A Prayer For The Owner Of The Empty Swing the swing sits silently no child to make it go was there an accident or infertility, this I do not know could it be her finger never a ring did wear time traversed just leaving with the owner one solitary tear or did the owners after […]
The types of cancers that develop in children are different from those that develop in adults. Lifestyle or environmental risk factors don’t play a role; it is usually the result of DNA changes in cells that take place very early in life. Because of major treatment advances, more than 80% of children with cancer now […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
