Childhood cancer has a fearsome reputation. It is a disease that has not yet fully yielded to the skills and intelligence of medical scientists and doctors. And, as if the pain from the disease is not enough, the treatment for cancer, too, inflicts heavy suffering on the body.

	Close to 75% of children diagnosed with cancer can ultimately be cured!
	Childhood leukemia once was a most dreaded disease that meant almost certain death for a child diagnosed with it. Today, thanks to advances in research and medical treatments, over 80% of childhood leukemia patients survive!
	The “rate of survival” for children with cancer has improved over the years more than for any other age group due to the successes in pediatric oncology research!
	Even with the amazing progress in recent years, childhood cancer is responsible for killing more children and teenagers every year than any other disease!
	One person out of every 330 will develop cancer before age 20!
	Each day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
	Although cure rates are steadily increasing, 35% of children cancer patients will die.
	Cancer remains the number one disease killer of children; more than genetic anomalies, cystic fibrosis, and AIDS combined.
	In 2006 approximately 9,500 new cases of pediatric cancer occurred in children between the ages of infancy through 15.
	Among ethnic groups, white children are most likely to develop cancer.
	Childhood cancer is not a single disease, but rather many different types that fall into 12 major categories. Common adult cancers are extremely rare in children, yet many cancers are almost exclusively found in children.
	Childhood Cancers are cancers that primarily affect children, teens, and young adults. When cancer strikes children and young adults it affects them differently than it would an adult.
	On the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year.
	On the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.