Bowl for the Gold

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Alicia Marie Martin

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Facts about Childhood Cancer

Cancer kills more children than any other disease.
Each and every school day 46 children, or more than two full classrooms of kids, will be diagnosed with cancer.
An estimated 12,400 children and young people will be diagnosed with cancer in the year 2007. 2,300 children will die from it.

One of every 330 persons in the United States will develop cancer before their 20th birthday.
On the average, one in every four elementary schools has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are current or former cancer patients.
The median age of cancer diagnosis in children is six meaning that an entire lifetime is at risk.
The cause of most childhood cancers are unknown. At present, childhood cancer cannot be prevented.
Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no social, economic or ethnic groups.
Despite the advances in early detection and treatment, only two thirds of children diagnosed with cancer survive.
In the United States, the incidence of cancer is increasing among adolescents and young adults at a greater rate than in any other age group, except those older than 65 years. The cause of this increase is unknown at present.
When you compare the federal research support allocated to each patient affiliated with AIDS, a child diagnosed with cancer is getting only one-sixth of it for every year of life saved. For every dollar spent on a patient with prostate cancer, less than 20 cents is spent on a child with cancer. Likewise a patient with breast cancer has triple the research resource allocated to her when compared to a child.
* Source: American Cancer Society’s Facts and Statistics

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