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About Childhood Cancer

About Childhood Cancer

St. Baldrick

Additional Statistics

  • 96% of Federal funding for research is for adult cancers, leaving only 4% for childhood cancers, yet kids make up 20% of our population
  • Funding from large cancer organization doesn’t help too much; Less than 1% of American Cancer Society total donations is directed towards childhood cancer research
  • Pharmaceutical companies fund 60% of all adult cancer research but they do virtually no childhood cancer research because it’s not profitable
  • About 900 Adult cancer drugs are in the drug development pipeline and almost none for children’s cancers
  • Childhood cancers are considered rare although worldwide over a quarter million kids are diagnosed annually
  • Here in the US about 1 in 285 Kids are diagnosed with cancer before age 20, about 16,000/year
  • The incidence of childhood cancer has increased about 29% over the last 20 years
  • Here in the US, 80% of kids survive 5 years; but 20% of those survive die prematurely due to the original cancer, a secondary cancer of effects of treatments
  • 98% of survivors suffer from a chronic health condition by the age of 45, including pulmonary, hearing, cardiac and other problems related to the cancer of the cancer treatment
  • Overall, childhood cancers are the #1 disease killer of US Kids, taking more kids every year than every other disease that effects kids combined, and worldwide nearly 100,000 die annually
  • Worldwide, a child is diagnosed every 3 minutes
  • Every day, 42 children are diagnosed with cancer
  • 37% survive more than one year, 20% survive 2 years. and 13% survive 3 years
  • DIPG has a 0 percent survival rate
  • The median overall survival of children diagnosed with DIPG is approximately 9 months

Sources:
http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/childhood/
http://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY13/Vol%202%20-%20Significant%20items.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/snapshots/pediatric
http://kidsvscancer.org
http://thecurestartsnow.org

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