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Did you know...
- Each day, 46
children are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S.
- One in every 330
American children develop cancer before the age of 20.
- Each year in the
U.S. over 12,600 children will be diagnosed with cancer.
- Childhood cancer is
the #1 disease killer of American children - more than asthma,
diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and AIDS, combined.
- Treatment of
childhood cancer is intense and typically involves:
surgery-radiation-chemotherapy
- There are currently
more than 270,000 childhood cancer survivors in the U.S.
- Late effects of
childhood cancer treatment are common in survivors, and
approximately one-third are moderate to severe.
- Neuro-cognitive
deficits (often loss of 10-50 IQ points)
- Heart failure
- Pulmonary
fibrosis
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Treatment-induced secondary cancers
- Cataracts
- Hearing loss
- Endocrine
abnormalities
- Loss of health
care coverage (pre-existing condition when they reach adulthood)
- Although cure rates
are steadily increasing, 35% of children will die.
- Scientists still do
not know the exact causes of most cancers.
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