CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS

Our goal is to raise awareness of the incidence and devastation of childhood cancer in America's children.  By raising awareness that childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of America's children, we hope to raise awareness for the families that find themselves in this battle. 

We seek to make the gold ribbon, which signifies childhood cancer as well known universally as the pink ribbon which symbolizes breast cancer.  In doing so we aim to open eyes and hearts to the children battling this disease and the families left in the wake of its devastation.

 

           

Although Efficacy has improved....
Side effects are increasingly damaging.

Therefore you could say that survival comes with a high price tag.

Some common side effects amongst these children are:

• Secondary Cancers
  
• Heart Damage
• Lung Damage
• Infertility
• Chronic Hepatitis
• Hearing Loss
• Growth issues
• Impaired cognitive abilities

Two thirds of survivors experience at least one of these side effects

 

Cancer is the #1 cause of disease related death for children and the second overall cause of death of children in the United States.  Cancer kills more children than Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Distrophy, Asthma and AIDS COMBINED!

Chiildhood Cancer Facts:

• Each school day 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
  
• Each day an average of 7 children die because of childhood cancer.
• One in 330 children will develop cancer by age 20.
  
• Each year in the U.S. over 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer.
  
• One quarter of those children will die within 5 years from the time of diagnosis.
  
• There are currently more than 270,000 childhood cancer survivors in the U.S.
  
• Late effect of childhood cancer treamtent are common among the survivors with 1/3 being moderate to severe.
  
• 80% of all children have metastatic diseass at time of diagnosis compared to only 20% of adults (this means we are not catching it early enough and the disease has already spread to other organs).
  

 

As you read the above sobering statistics, please know that childhood cancer can strike a family with children at anytime and anywhere.  There is no rhyme or reason to it. There is no cultural bias or predisposition.  In addition,  each and every case of childhood cancer is a very personal physical and emotional tragedy that most families were  uneducated and unprepared for. 

While we at CBC support the funding for advances in childhood cancer research, and we are appalled at the miniscule amounts of federal dollars directed to childhood cancer research, our aim is to come along side the families that are in the battle today and assist and support them emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and financially.  We pray for cure and support organizations like The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, American Cancer Society, CureSearch, and others  that donate their funds directly to research;  but we feel strongly that can not forget that many families are in the thick of this battle that the research of today will not help.  Therefore, every dollar raised at CBC goes directly to assisting the families in the greatest need who are battling childhood cancer.

Thank you for your support of these families.  Every donation counts.