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Learn About Childhood Cancer

TeamConnor outlines the different types of childhood cancer and treatments that a child will typically go through. Find questions here to ask your child's doctors and learn more about the disease that strikes thousands of kids each year.

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Did You Know

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common leukemia seen in children, accounting for 75% of all pediatric cases.

Every day in America, approximately 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.

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

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, accounting for about 3% of childhood cancers.

On average, 1 in every 4 elementary schools has a child with cancer.

About one-third of childhood cancers are leukemias.

Childhood cancer survival rates in the United States have increased from less than 20% in the 1960s to almost 80% today.

Cancer kills more children each year than Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Diabetes, and Pediatric AIDS combined.

Childhood cancer is not one disease entity, but rather a spectrum of different malignancies. Cancers found in children are biologically different from those seen in adults.

1 in 300 children will develop cancer before age 20.

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