Childhood Cancer Awareness

Everyone knows what the type of cancer pink represents. But do you know what cancer the color gold stands for? Some people think that childhood cancer is rare, and some don’t even know that children get cancer. Some people think that the current funding for childhood cancer is appropriate for the number of cases. But in reality, every three minutes an innocent child dies from cancer. Not only that, but all childhood cancers combined get a very small portion of awareness and funding. With hardly any funding, the kids can’t get the medicines and drugs that they need to fight cancer. In order to get the funding that is so badly needed, awareness is extremely important. With less than four percent of all government cancer funding, children with cancer need our voice to help them get the funding and awareness that they need.

Too many kids die from cancer each year for childhood cancer to go so unnoticed. So exactly how “rare” is childhood cancer? Every three minutes, somewhere in this world a child will die from cancer (About Childhood Cancer). In fact, cancer is the number one killer of kids in the United States. Cancer will take more kids than AIDs, muscular dystrophy, asthma, and cystic fibrosis combined (A Dozen Awareness Facts). Although there are more adults than children diagnosed with cancer per year, a child who dies to cancer will pay a greater price. When an adult dies of cancer, on average they will lose about ten to twenty years of life. But when a young child dies of cancer, they lose an average of seventy to eighty years of life. Not only that, these children are being robbed of their childhood. These children should be playing outside and learning to read and write, not being poked, prodded, poisoned with tre...

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...wever, more funding is needed. And in order to get the funding that is needed, awareness is so important. So if childhood cancer would get your awareness and funding, together we can help children fight and survive cancer to live a long and healthy life after cancer.

Childhood cancers get an unacceptable amount of government cancer research funding, less than four percent. Childhood cancer isn’t rare. Every three minutes, somewhere a child will die from this horrible disease. The fact that the government spends so little on these suffering children is unacceptable. What’s also unacceptable is that only two treatments have been developed in the past twenty years for children. But we can help change this. By spreading awareness, we can help raise the funding for childhood cancers. It’s time to stand up and be a voice for these children, because kids get cancer too.