THEThe tumor in pediatric age in Italy Every year there is about 1,500 children from 0 to 14 years and about 800 teenagers between 15 and 18 years old. However, there is good news: 80% of these very young cancer patients heal. Thanks to the collaboration between the Roman organization Peter Pan Odv And Lottomatica Foundational Child Jesus The healing passport is born To keep track of their clinical history and monitor the effects of long -term therapies.
Cancer in pediatric age: over 1,200 new healed every year
In Italy, Almost 50,000 people had a tumor in childhood or adolescence And they passed it. Today they are between 6 and 55 years old and 50% have exceeded 25. To these every year around 1,200 new healings are added, i.e. 80% of the approximately 1,500 new cases of pediatric cancer diagnosed every year. For an adult who has been suffering from child’s tumor it is often difficult to reconstruct his clinical historyknow exactly what therapies, exams and interventions has undergone in an age where the parents and the guardians are involved in medical choices. Especially when these figures are missing. Thinking about them, the project of the “Healing passport” of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome.
Healing passport: what is it for
It is a document, digital or paper, thought For children and adolescents who have concluded the oncological care path and which contains the clinical history of the small patient, who will be able to use it as a historical memory for life. The healing passport reports, in fact, in detail all the treatments received, drugs, therapies and surgical interventions, as well as any complications found in the care path. The future patients’ doctors will thus be able to have one tool for monitoring and preventing possible long -term effects of care and have indications for a patient-made follow-up. This will be able to make the patient cured, now become an adult, autonomous with respect to his dear Giver of the past.
Pediatric oncological rehabilitation: support already in the hospital
The collaboration between Peter Pan Odv and Lottomatica Foundation also provides for support to Rehabilitation paths offered by the Bambino Gesù hospital for children with cancer. Rehabilitation is an indispensable piece for the recovery of functions compromised by the disease, therapies and prolonged hospitalizations and it is Fundamental to start it as soon as possible. Thanks to this project it is possible to offer small patients targeted physiotherapy interventions, employment therapy and motor rehabilitation, language and swallowing directly in the hospital.
Actions to support small patients
“We are very grateful for the support offered by the Peter Pan Association and the Lottomatica Foundation to the projects of the healing passport and rehabilitation aimed at children with cancer. The collaboration between these organizations and our hospital represents A virtuous example of a path of solidarity. This strengthens the effectiveness of the actions taken And optimize the results for the benefit of the most fragile people.
Through tools such as passport, which allows you to monitor and prevent the long -term effects of care, and through targeted physiotherapy, employment therapy and rehabilitation, We can continue to support our children even after the conclusion of the careoffering constant support to their families. We trust we can continue this collaboration in the future, expanding projects in favor of young patients and families to contribute to their well -being and their quality of life “, he concludes Tiziano Onestipresident of the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital.
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