September is Childhood Cancer Month
30 Days 30 Facts
Flip Box For Facts
Day 1
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month … You don’t have to know a child with cancer to help the cause. Share and learn how to get involved and make a difference.
Day 2
Everyday 43 kids are diagnosed with Cancer! 1 in 5 will not survive.
Day 3
Childhood Cancer is not one disease – there are more than 12 major types of pediatric cancers and over 100 sub-types.
Day 4
Cancer remains the #1 cause of death by disease for children in America.
Day 5
Less than 4% of the Federal budget for Cancer Research is dedicated to Childhood Cancer.
Day 6
Approximately 1 in 285 children in the Us will be diagnosed with Cancer before their 20th Birthday.
Day 7
Worldwide, a child is diagnosed with cancer every three minutes.
Day 8
There are 71 potential life years lost on average when a child dies of cancer compared to 17 potential life years lost for adults.
Day 9
Survival rates can range from almost 0% for cancers such as DIPG, a type of brain cancer, to as high as 90% for the most common type of childhood cancer know as Acute Lymphoma Leukemia.
Day 10
On average about 17% of children die within 5 years of diagnosis.
Day 11
About 35% of children diagnosed with cancer will die within 30 years of diagnosis.
Day 12
The average age of diagnosis is 6 years old.
Day 13
On average about 17% of children die within 5 years of diagnosis.
Day 14
The average cost of a stay in the hospital fir a child with cancer is $40,000 per stay.
Day 15
Every day 43 kids are diagnosed with cancer in the US.
Day 16
Childhood cancer generally cannot be prevented or screened.
Day 17
Pineoblastoma took the life of our precious CEO Zoefia., Everyday is childhood Cancer Awareness!
Day 18
Mortality rates remain little changed over the past 30 years.
Day 19
Pineoblastoma can occur at any age.
Day 20
Individuals with Pineoblastoma live an average of 20 months.
Day 21
The average survival rate for all malignant brain tumor patients is only 36%.
Day 22
There has never been a drug developed and approved specially for malignant pediatric brain tumors.
Day 23
For many tumor types surgery and radiation remain the standard of care.
Day 24
Approximately 80% of cancers have been associated with the ability to metastasize to the brain.
Day 25
43 children per day are expected to be diagnosed with cancer.
Day 26
Cancer survival rates vary not only depending upon the type of cancer, but also upon individual factors attributable to each child.
Day 27
The average 5 year survival rate for childhood cancers when considered as a whole is 83%.
Day 28
More than 95% of childhood cancer survivors will have a significant health related issue by the time they are 45 years of age.
Day 29
Those that survive the five years have an eight times greater mortality rate due to the increased risk of liver and heart disease and increased risk for reoccurrence of the original cancer or of a secondary cancer.
Day 30
For us Everyday is Brain Cancer Awareness Month!
For us Everyday is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!