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When a child is diagnosed with cancer, a family can begin to feel isolated. TeamConnor has great resources to help you stay connected with other families battling childhood cancer.
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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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TeamConnor has proudly awarded $100,000 to Dr. Laurence Cooper of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX for his research based on T-cell immunotherapy.
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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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