الفهرس 
Treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma..Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 32 |  |  |
| | | from | 32 | | |
Abstract
A child going through a life-threatening illness, more particularly systemic malignancies, is an extremely stressful experience for the entire family. Childhood malignancies are justifiably a frequent cause of big concern to parents and physicians, especially neurologists and psychiatrists, because of their complications and life threatening. The upper age for defining childhood malignancies is those occurring before age of 15 years. Common childhood malignancies are the systemic childhood malignancies They account for more than one-half of childhood malignancies. Systemic childhood malignancies are malignancies that spread to affect all body systems. They include hematopoietic malignancies” such as leukemias and lymphomas, neuroblastoma, sarcomas and rare tumors as overian carcinoma and Wilin’s tumor. leukemia and lymphomas are the most common systemic childhood malignancies. Systemic childhood malignancies are commonly complicated by a numerous of neurological and psychiatric complications. Neurological complications of systemic childhood malignancies are caused by several mechanisms. They can result from the direct effects of cancer on the nervous system, and indirect effect secondary to metabolic changes, cerebrovascular strokes, infections, organ system failure, immune mediated and treatment related. Among cancer ill children, psychological and social adjustment problems and psychiatric disorders are common yet they often go unnoticed and thus untreated until they become severe and significantly interfere with the patient’s comfort, quality of life, and potentially survival. assume a more prominent roie in the care of children w)tb cancer. Psychiatric complications of systemic childhood malignancies are numerous and begin from the onset of diagnosis, throughout the course of illness at. begging of treatment, after end of treatment, at the time of relapse and may be delayed as a long term sequelae .