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Pediatric Cancer Facts
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Every year of an estimated of 250,000 + new cases effect children each year.
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Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death in children under 15.
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Every two minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer.
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1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer by the time they 20 year old.
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Two-thirds of childhood patients will have long lasting chronic effects from treatment.
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The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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There are over a dozen types of cancer & hundred different sub types.
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One in five children diagnosed with cancer will not survive.
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