Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease
in children and adolescents in the United States.

Every day 46 children are diagnosed with cancer

and 7 children lose their life to cancer.

Only 2 new drugs for childhood cancer
have been developed in the last 30 years.

The average age of death for a child with cancer is 8,
causing a child to lose 69 years of expected life.

1 in 285 children will be diagnosed
with cancer by the age of 18.