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* Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children, claiming the lives of more children each year than AIDS, asthma, cystic fibrosis and diabetes combined.

* Each year in the United States, approximately 13,500 children and adolescents under the age of 20, are diagnosed with cancer.

* Over 175,000 children are diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year.

* Prior to their 20th birthday, one out of every 300 males and one out of every 333 females in America will develop cancer.

* Childhood cancer does not discriminate. It spares no ethnic group, no socio-economic class or geographic region.

* Approximately one in 500 young adults is a childhood cancer survivor. Nearly 2/3 of the survivors later experience significant and chronic medical problems or develop secondary cancers as adults that result from the treatment of their original cancer.

* In the past 20 years only two new cancer drugs have been approved specifically for pediatric cancer.

* The causes of most pediatric cancers remain a mystery and cannot be prevented.

* The average childhood cancer victim loses 71 life years.

* Researchers estimate that 51% of moms and 40% of dads who have a child with cancer meet the criteria for “Acute Stress Disorder” within two weeks of the cancer diagnoses.

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Stand Up To Cancer Vitals

Founded:

May 28, 2008


Funds Pledged since inception:

$262 Million


Research grant commitments awarded to date:

$161 million for 37 grants


Number of scientists funded:

500


Number of institutions joining in SU2C’s collaborative mission:

101


Number of people in the U.S. who were diagnosed with cancer today:

4,490


Time to fix the problem:

Now

Personally, I loved the Stand Up To Cancer telethon they did last year! You can donate to Stand Up To Cancer
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