Today is Childhood Cancer Awareness Day
September 13, 2008 by BloggerNewbie
Today is Childhood Cancer Awareness Day
Childhood cancer kills more kids each year than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined. 
A measly three percent of the budget for the National Cancer Institute goes towards pediatric cancers. 12,500 of our innocent, precious children will be diagnosed with cancer this year.
One in four will not survive childhood cancer, two in four will suffer long term/chronic side effects.
Many of those who survive the brutal treatments will be scarred in ways that will greatly affect their quality of life. Those who do not survive leave behind devastated families with heartbreakingly empty arms.
“Most of us have far more courage
than we ever dreamed we possessed..”
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
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everytime i read those statistics it makes me sick… why is there so much awareness on all the other illnesses and not enough awareness on childhood cancer? (not that i want you to answer that) one sickness is not any more or less important than the other.. but childhood cancer affects more children combined.. shouldn’t there be more awareness??? uggghh!!! sorry about the complaining on your post.
It makes me ill too. Literally. They say childhood cancer is rare but from what we see not rare enough! I guess we have a lot of work to do.