Pediatric Oncology Patients: Managing this High-Risk Group

The pediatric oncology population is an emotionally challenging, high-risk group and a classic example of one Joe’s laws of PEM: kids with chronic medical conditions must be treated with kid gloves. Let’s think about some incident presentations (including a few with unusual symptoms) and then consider complications of both the underlying malignancy and its treatment.

Refrences:

Bells Palsy- a rare presentation of acute leukemia

Tonsilits is super common and leukemia is rare– but stop and think before steroids

Back pain in a kid with cancer- think about the cord