Drawing on the NCI (2014) and Dorak and Karpuzoglu (2012) reading on childhood cancers, please answer all of the following questions:
(1) Overall, what do the trends in cancer prevalence and incidence look like in children and adolescents?
(2) How do these trends differ by gender in childhood? Do these gendered trends change in adolescents, young adulthood, adulthood, or older age?
(3) Describe why there are gender differences in childhood cancer susceptibility and why there are differences in progrnosis
(4) How does this reading relate to your life and your career plans?
Reading guide for this article:
– Don’t be intimidated by the technical terms in Dorak and Karpuzoglu; try to focus on the big picture take ways for each section and subsection
o Is cancer more prevalent in young boys or young girls? Are there exceptions?
o How do gender and age interact to influence susceptibility?
o Are these patterns just found in the US or are they worldwide?
o Why are there differences in cancer estimates, especially by gender?
o What are some factors/mechanisms behind differences in cancer susceptibility by gender?
– Focus on the overall patterns and prognoses for childhood cancers in the NCI piece
o Is childhood cancer becoming more or less common? What about number of children who have ever been diagnosed with cancer, even if they are in remission?
o What does the prognosis look like for children diagnosed with a childhood cancer? What about for survivors of childhood cancers?