This article provides a brief background of neuroblastoma and how it is treated. This article contains description of the disease, proper awareness needed, how the disease starts, signs and symptoms, how to prevent it, and how to treat it as well. It is also discusses the risk of neuroblastoma.

Neuroblastoma is a type of cancer which is more prevalent to infants and children and less common in adult. It is elaborated in this article how neuroblastoma develops and how it was examined and found out to be cancerous. The risks and causes of this disease are enumerated in this article: from our lifestyle, unhealthy diets and genetics. Although the main cause of this disease is still unknown.

Prevention of neuroblastoma is not given in this article since no definite known causes have been evaluated. But if detected early there is a big chance to cure this kind of disease. Signs and symptoms of neuroblastoma can easily be detected. A lump or a tumor is a usual sign.

Diagnosis of neuroblastoma is also stated in this article, with the present of signs and symptoms you have already the idea on what to do, laboratory test is needed like urine and blood test. Other tests are biopsies and imaging test which is the x-ray. Different test are conducted to identify the stages of neuroblastoma and these are the following: CT scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MIR), and Radionuclide scanning or scintiggraphy.

Due to different stages of neuroblastoma, cancer care center has created a method known as International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS). The following are in simplified form: Stage 1: localized respectable, Stage 2: localized unresectable, Stage 2A: locally unresectable/one side of the body, Stage 2B: locally unresectable/one side of the body but spread in the lymph node, Stage 3: regional, Stage 4: disseminated, Stage 4S or special neuroblastoma.

This kind of disease can recur after treatment but with a slim chance. Also stated in this article some follow up test and studies are being done in treating neuroblastoma, like for example the Prognostic marker, Tumor grade, DNA ploidy, Cytogenetics, Oncogene amplifications, Neurotrophin receptors, and Serum marker.

Treating neuroblastoma is not simple, after result of biopsy and a malignant tumor is found the patient will undergo surgery followed by chemotherapy. The patient will also have a complete blood count, routine blood chemistry panels, glomerular filtration rate, audiogram, echocardiogram, and radiation therapy. Bone marrow transplantation and Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is also discussed in this article.

In this article it includes clinical trials, studies that have been conducted by some researchers in discovering a new treatment for neuroblastoma

Many children survive after treatment of neuroblastoma, only with early detection, correct treatment, good supervision the patient has a big chance to survive in this kind of disease. This article discussed neuroblastoma from its etiology down to its procedural treatment.

With the advent of stem cell the patient may forego all of this in the future. Given the ability to culture a cell a healthy cell at that which will allow us to replace or repair a part of our body or even an organ. Through the use of an embryo transplant microscope one can peer through and cell a good cell or embryo. Invitro fertilization and the future may offer an alternative but it is too early for this. Through surgery and the cultivating and selecting a good embryo using an embryo transplant microscope one can culture a healthy free from disease embryo. Not only do we need an embryo transplant microscope to select a good embryo but advances in science and technology and years and years of research to produce the “perfect” human being. Original article