Day 3 Of Childhood Cancer Awareness

Day 3 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

• Approximately 20 percent of all children with cancer will die from their disease, a secondary cancer, or complications from treatment.

• The causes of most pediatric cancers remain a mystery and cannot be prevented.

• Childhood cancer does not discriminate, sparing no ethnic group, socio-economic class or geographic region.

• About one in 500 young adults is a childhood cancer survivor. Nearly 2/3 of the survivors later experience significant and chronic medical problems or develop secondary cancers as adults that result from the treatment of their original cancer.