Boy suffers from rare head cancer
A SAKUBVA family has resigned to watching the condition of their son who was diagonised with a rare cancer - rhabdomyosercoma (RMS) - on the head deteriorating after doctors who twice operated him have reportedly given up hope and put him under palliative care as the tumour continuously recur.
So heart poking is the condition of Carlisto Mbaimbai, of House Number 17 Ellis Gledhill, Sakubva, who had his left eye plucked out in an operation while the tumour has devoured the skull, exposing the brains.
The family struggles with dressing his wound, and are appealing for both financial and medicinal assistance to manage his condition.
Online research describes Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), a tumour of skeletal muscle origin, as the second most common soft tissue sarcoma encountered in childhood after osteosarcoma, whose common sites of occurrence are the head and neck region.
RMS is a highly malignant tumour with extensive local invasions and early hemorrhagic and lymphatic dissemination and despite aggressive approaches incorporating surgery, dose-intensive combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the outcome for patients with the metastatic disease remains poor.
Carlisto’s head keeps swelling and has resultantly deformed his facial outlooks.
He constantly experiences excruciating headaches, convulsions and now hardly talks. The boy’s father Mr Gwarai
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