Childhood Leukemia Treatment Side Effects

In addition chemotherapy is toxic to both normal blood cells and aml.

Childhood leukemia treatment side effects.

Low blood cell counts. Every cancer treatment can cause side effects or changes to your child s body and how he or she feels. Less than 1 of children who have received standard therapy for all develop aml. You will learn more about coping with the physical emotional social and financial side effects of childhood cancer and its treatment.

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. More rarely children treated for leukemia may later develop non hodgkin lymphoma or other cancers. This page includes several links outside of this guide to other sections of this website. Use the menu to see other pages.

Depending on the leukemia treatment given it can lead to medical conditions including. Side effects and complications. Red cells anemia platelets thrombocytopenia white cells called neutrophils and monocytes neutropenia and. But children who receive certain types of more intense chemotherapy have up to a 5 chance of developing aml.

Dr van der plas specializes in looking at the neurocognitive effects of childhood leukemia treatment. 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. Treatment may involve antibiotics blood transfusions. Learning problems are often associated with radiation therapy targeted at the brain.

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. Aml decreases the production of normal blood cells. Find out more about second cancers.