Each day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States.
One in every 330 American children develop cancer before the age of 20.
Each year in the United States over 12,600 children will be diagnosed with cancer.
Childhood cancer is the #1 disease killer of American children (more than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and AIDS, combined).
Treatment of childhood cancer is intense and typically involves surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy.
There are currently more than 270,000 childhood cancer survivors in the U.S.
Late effects of childhood cancer treatment are common in survivors, and approximately one-third are moderate to severe, including:
- Neuro-cognitive deficits (often loss of 10-50 IQ points)
- Heart failure
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Treatment-induced secondary cancers
- Cataracts
- Hearing loss
- Endocrine abnormalities
- Loss of health care coverage (pre-existing condition when they reach adulthood
Although cure rates are steadily increasing, 35% of all children with cancer will die.
Scientists still do not know the exact causes of most cancers.
The Jeanette Williams Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in the memory of Dianne Troop’s
mother Jeanette Williams for the purpose of helping find a cure for this disease that takes far too many of
our children. With your help, we can find a cure and make a difference. |
