My daughter went through 14 rounds of chemotherapy for bone cancer in 2005 and 2006. Now she is having trouble in school and the school system wants to check her for learning disabilities because she is having a great deal of trouble learning to read. Has anyone else heard of chemotherapy causing a child to have learning disabilities?
2007-01-06 07:16:08 · 8 answers · asked by marthaaustin1974 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
This can be complicated, but essentially yes, some types of chemotherapy might cause learning disabilities, although not necessarially from bone cancer treatment. I think the school needs to do an evaluation, as it is possible that your daughter may have had a learning disability before treatment. Unless she was tested before this happened I am not sure if you will ever really know. The important thing is to get her as much help as possible now.
In the meantime you can read about the late affects of cancer treatment for childhood cancer:
ACS: Childhood Cancer Survivors Coached to Improve Learning Disabilities:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Childhood_Cancer_Survivors_Coached_to_Improve_Learning_Disabilities.asp
Late Effects for Treatment of Childhood Cancer
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/Patient
Long term effects on school
http://www.outlook-life.org/index.pl?id=2029&isa=Item&op=show
Cognitive late effects to the brain
http://www.candlelighters.org/treatmentcoglateeffects2.stm
Good luck.
2007-01-06 07:44:56 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In short, yes, but it's rare. It more often causes what's called "chemo brain" which sort of mimics learning disabilities frequently. The american cancer society website (www.cancer.org) has some info on these effects. They can be lessened with some work. It wouldn't hurt to talk to her oncologist about this.
2007-01-06 09:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by turdl38 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok the same thing happened to my mother no she is not a child but i found out that chemo has an affect on the brain and she has a diffulict time with some things so i dont think its a learning problem if you allow the school to do the teat they will wont to put her on riddlin not a good idea take her back to the doctor the one you trust dont let them do it .
2007-01-07 00:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by mountainchowpurple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like 'chemobrain'. Do a yahoo or google search on that for tons of info. It's under-treated by oncologists as a problem until recently. Short term memory loss is common.
2007-01-06 07:54:51 · answer #4 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 22:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by cottom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check with your doctor for sure, but yes it can. You might have her eyes checked, she may just need a correction.
2007-01-06 07:18:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it can.
2007-01-07 00:34:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard that one--I really don't think so---
2007-01-06 07:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋