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Facts about Pediatric Cancer

  1. Pediatric Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States. (www.cancer.gov)

  2. All pediatric cancers combined receive less than 4% of the national funding for research.

  3. Children who receive high-dose chemotherapy during treatment are most likely to be diagnosed with a secondary cancer at some point in their lifetime.

  4. Most treatments are 20-30 years old and make the kids very sick.

  5. Every year, an estimated 250,000+ new cases of cancer affect children under the age of 20 worldwide. That is almost 700 new kids affected every day.

  6. Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographic region.

  7. Every day, approximately 250 kids around the world die of cancer.

  8. 91,250 kids lose their life to cancer every year.

  9. Two-thirds of childhood cancer patients will have long lasting chronic conditions from treatment.

  10. One in 285 children in the USA will be diagnosed with cancer by the time they are 20 years old.
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  11. Despite these facts, childhood cancer research is vastly and consistently underfunded.
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