by Garth Sundem | Sep 23, 2020 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Inspiration
Treatments for many pediatric cancers have improved to the point that a child’s cancer diagnosis come with an 84 percent cure rate. Of course, that means cancer is still fatal for almost 16 percent of young patients and that rate is much higher in some forms of...
by Sheri Brisson | Sep 18, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness
It’s heartbreaking that the average age of children diagnosed with cancer is just six-years-old. But fortunately, due to breakthroughs in medical research and treatment, today nearly 90% of these children will survive. However, the devastating fact is that 60% of...
by Joanne Quillen | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
More than 80 percent of children with a cancer diagnosis will be a survivor and live into adulthood. One in 600 adults will be a childhood cancer survivor. This is a vast improvement over years past when a cancer diagnosis was much more foreboding. But as a...
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