Childhood Cancer Facts
Childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of children in the U.S, resulting in the death of approximately 1,800 kids each year.
Every two minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer. Approximately 400,000 kids around the world will be diagnosed with cancer every year.
80% of children diagnosed with cancer are in developing countries. Childhood cancer is a global problem, and one institution can't solve it alone.
In 80% of kids with cancer, the cancer has already spread to other areas of the body by the time it is diagnosed. That's why so many children need to begin treatment right away.
There are over a dozen types of childhood cancer and hundreds of different subtypes. The more rare types, when added together, account for about 30% of cancers in children and adolescents.
One in five children diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. will not survive. For the ones who do, the battle is never over.
Because of the treatments they had as kids, by the time they're in their 30s or 40s, more then 95% of childhood cancer survivors will have a chronic health problem and 80% will have severe or life threatening conditions.
Only 4% of the National Cancer Institute's annual budget goes to pediatric cancer! That needs to change!
1 in every 260 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday.
Approximately 50% of of all pediatric cancer research is funded by philanthropies supported by private donors, corporations, and foundations.