• Cancer remains the number one disease that claims the lives of our children. Each year cancer kills more children under the age of 20 than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined.
• Each year in the U.S., approximately 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. That’s the equivalent of two average size classrooms diagnosed each school day.
• Today, nearly 80 percent of children diagnosed with cancer become long-term survivors and the majority of them are considered cured. That is up from approximately 58% just  20 years ago. This is what research can do!
• One out of every 300 kids in America will develop cancer before their 20th birthday.

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All facts compiled from Cure Search and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation.