Health Information

Cancer is the major public health problem worldwide as the number of new cancer diagnoses and cancer deaths has been continuously increasing every year. This also generates more awareness of the disease and the methods of treatment.

Chemotherapy targets cells that grow and divide quickly, as cancer cells do. Unfortunately,  it also can affect some fast-growing healthy cells, like those of the skin, hair, intestines, and bone marrow. That’s what causes some of the side effects from the treatment including:

Older children and adolescents might experience pain around both knees especially in the evening and/or before bedtime, a condition which is known as ‘Growing Pain’. This usually manifests as benign, self-limiting and a non-severe pain around the knees and sometimes on the ankles.