• Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children.
  


• Just a small fraction of the dollars spent on research in this country is directed to pediatric cancer.
  


• In terms of cancer research dollars, children are at the bottom of the ladder.
  


• Each and every school day 46 children, or more than two full classrooms of kids, will be diagnosed with cancer.
  


• The median age of cancer diagnosis in children is six . . . meaning that an entire lifetime is at risk.
  


• Childhood cancer cuts across all social, economic and ethnic differences.
  


• Only two thirds of children diagnosed with cancer survive.
  


• Information about treatment options, current and long-term follow up results is not easily available for pediatric patients, their parents, health-care professionals, insurance companies and the general public.
  

What Is Needed:

• increased funding to support research to find a cure for childhood cancers;
  
  
• funding for social workers, psychologists and therapists to counsel families after a diagnosis of childhood cancer; and,
  
  
• funding for programs to ease the burdens of the children and families affected by childhood cancer and to bring some sense of joy and hope to their lives