Cancer Facts

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Today, despite amazing research progress, cancer still takes the lives of more children than any other disease including asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and AIDS combined.

Pediatric Cancer Facts and Statistics:

  • Childhood cancer is the number one disease killer and third leading cause of death (exceeded by accidents and guns) of children. (NBC News)
  • On any given school day, approximately 43 young people or two classes of students are diagnosed with cancer every day in the United States. (curesearch.org)
  • Every year, more than 12,500 children are diagnosed with cancer and more than 40,000 children undergo treatment. (curesearch.org)
  • Every year, 12% or 1 out of 8 children diagnosed with cancer do not survive. (curesearch.org)
  • The average age of children diagnosed with cancer is 6 years old. (curesearch.org)
  • The average high school has two students who are current or former cancer patients.
  • The causes of most childhood cancers are unknown. At present, childhood cancer cannot be prevented.
  • Although cure rates are steadily increasing, the overall survival rate for children’s cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% in the last 40 years. (curesearch.org)
  • 60% of children who survive cancer suffer late effects, such as infertility, heart failure, and secondary cancers later in life. (curesearch.org)
  • Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly, and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographic region.
  • In the United States, the incidence of cancer among adolescents and young adults is increasing at a greater rate than any other age group, except those over 65 years.
  • There are approximately 375,000 adult survivors of children’s cancer in the US. Equal to 1 in 530 adults ages 20-39. (curesearch.org)
  • In the last 20 years, only 4 cancer treatments have been specifically developed and approved for children. (curesearch.org)

Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographic region. In the United States, the incidence of cancer among adolescents and young adults is increasing at a greater rate than any other age group, except those over 65 years.

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