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​A cancer diagnosis is upsetting at any age, but especially when the patient is a child. The words no parent should ever hear "your child has cancer." They say childhood cancer is rare, yet over 15,700 parents hear those chilling words every year, here in the US.

​1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year, that is an average of 43 children a day or 15,780 children a year. 12% of children diagnosed with cancer will not survive. Childhood Cancer is not one disease but there are more that 16 major types of pediatric cancer and 100 subtypes. The major types of cancer in children age 0 to 14 years are leukemia (ALL), brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors and neuroblasoma (adrenal gland tumor). The cause of most childhood cancers are unknown and can't be prevented.

​Cancer is the number one cause of death in children, more than any other disease. An estimated 1,960 children will die from cancer each year. About 35% of children diagnosed with cancer will die with thirty years of diagnosis. On average about 17% of children will dies within five years of diagnosis. Among those children that survive the five years from diagnosis, 18% will dies within thirty years of diagnosis. Those that survive the five years have an 8x's greater mortality rate due to the increased risk of liver and heart disease and an increased risk for reoccurrence of the original cancer or of a secondary cancer.

Chemotherapy and Radiation work by killing fast growing cancer cells. The problem with children is chemo and radiation is that  it not only kills the fast growing cancer cells but it also kills the good/normal fast growing cells.

​Late Effects are health problems that show up months to years after treatment has ended. Late effects can be damage to the heart, the lungs, can cause secondary cancers, growth defects, nerve damage, hearing lose, infertility and more. It is becoming increasingly apparent that Childhood Cancer is FOR LIFE.