Nicolas Diaz Foundation

• Incidence of invasive pediatric cancers is up 29% in the past 20 years.

• Each year around 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US, that’s more than a classroom of kids a day.

• 35,000 children are currently in treatment for cancer.

• Some 25% of all kids who are diagnosed with cancer die.

• More children die of cancer every year than adults died in 9/11.

• Cancer kills more children than AIDs, asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined.

• The average age of death for a child with cancer is 8, causing a child to lose 69 years of expected life.

• The death of a child is one of the most traumatic events a family might face.

http://www.kidsvcancer.org/facts/