Qatari media tells the stories of children who have recovered from cancer

Statistics issued by the Qatar National Cancer Registry, published by the Qatar Cancer Society, revealed that leukemia and tumors of the brain and nervous system are among the most common types of cancer in children from birth to 14 years old, as leukemia cancer among children recorded a rate of 42.86%, brain cancer 45.24%, and 11 90% of the total diagnosed cases are other cancers, and leukemia is among the cancers that cause death among children in Qatar. According to the Qatar National Cancer Registry, it showed that 42 new cases of childhood cancer were registered for those under the age of fifteen, and 62% of the total newly registered cases were males, compared to 38% of females, and the percentage of Qataris reached about 38.1% of the total number of newborns. cancer, while 61.9% were non-Qataris. In this context, an informed source in the Qatar Cancer Society confirmed that the Society covered the costs of treatment for 30 children during 2022, at a total cost of (1,918,125) million Qatari riyals, pointing out that the Society provides financial support to patients who are unable to cover the costs of treatment based on Policies and procedures decided by the treatment committee concerned with receiving applications and taking decisions regarding each case. Genetic mutations The source pointed out that the causes behind the infection may be due to genetic changes or mutations, and that environmental factors or individual behaviors have nothing to do with children’s types of cancer. He assured Qatari media that there is support for infected patients, especially children, pointing out that the support is not at the financial level, but also at the moral level through the Department of Support for Those Living with the Disease, as the department launches support programs, including the “Your Smile is Our Life” program, which is directed to adult patients. “Our Children Are Gone”, which is the program directed to children, in addition to the “We Can Really Can” program, which is directed to non-patients, with the aim of advocating and supporting cancer patients, by raising community awareness of cancer as a disease, and providing all support to those living with the disease and their families, especially pediatric patients. He drew attention to the program “I am recovering and I will ask you my story”, which tells the stories of children and their experience with the disease in coordination with Weill Cornell Medical College, as children’s experiences are listened to in the presence of a number of doctors and families of sick children, to document their experience. Sami Fattouh, his story is inspiring for children, the first stories of coexistence with cancer. Its hero, Sami Fattouh, is not a figment of imagination. Rather, it was woven by fate. Sami is a child who contracted leukemia at the age of three. He was not aware of his leukemia at the age of six until he was six years old. His experience with the disease extended over 5 years. He spent two years of it in the corridors of the hospital, until the smell of medicines and sterilizers congested his nose, and he knew the disease by name, but every day he lived a new experience of suffering, beginning with ulcers in his mouth and stomach due to chemotherapy, all the way to his hair loss, but the trick of his uncle Mustafa And Khaled by shaving their hair and encouraging him to shave his own hair made things easier for him, when he learned that one of the symptoms of chemotherapy is hair loss. Sami’s mother said, “Stories of hope and people’s experiences are the most important things that the patient and his family are looking for, and they are the biggest incentive to give hope to the patient and his family. When the doctor told us that Sami had leukemia, it was a great shock, and the doctor’s voice still resonated in my head, but the doctors’ credibility, their quick response, and their transparency dealt with him.” The biggest role in introducing us to the disease and reassuring us that every disease has a cure. We thought that it was the end. All we knew about cancer is that it is a disease that affects a person and ends his life. We were trying to know more about the disease. I was praying to God to save us from it so that we become ambassadors to spread hope among the injured. Our son’s response to treatment, despite the difficulties and diseases that permeated it, and as a result of immunodeficiency, he was sometimes infected with some infections, and treatment was stopped because of them. However, the support of friends and the support of the Cancer Society financially and morally relieved us, and the support was like a ray of light sneaking out of a dark tunnel. And she added, “I made a promise to myself that if my son recovers, I will make him tell his story to his fellow patients to give them hope. Indeed, after he was discharged from the hospital, we visited the hospital to tell them his experience with the disease and give some advice to the injured through his experience through the “I am recovering and I will inspire you with my story” activity that she is organizing. Qatar Cancer Society, as Sami told his story with some pain and a lot of hope that touched their hearts before their shoulders. Firas was saved by the rapid diagnosis Firas Ashraf .. A child whose suffering with leukemia began in 2016. His suffering began to weave threads when Firas had a high temperature every few weeks, to return to its normal rate on its own, and on Friday February 26, 2016 (remembers his father the most honorable date exactly); They took Firas to the Children’s Emergency Center, because he had a stiff neck due to the fever, so Firas had blood drawn for a blood test that same night. Later, the doctor explained that the blood image showed an alarming defect in the number of white blood cells, which is the body’s main line of defense against infection, and that leukemia was one of the possibilities. Firas was transferred to Hamad General Hospital – Department of Hematology, and at that time his mother noticed that there were children who had injections pending. In the vein, and others lost their hair, and at that time sadness overwhelmed her heart, turning the world upside down, but what soothed her was the speed of diagnosis and speed of treatment, in addition to the efforts of the Qatar Cancer Society, which bore 75% of the financial burden, which helped them overcome their ordeal with a lot Of hope and patience.