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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. Visit our blog or join in a forum conversation.
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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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April 2013 – TeamConnor gifted $20,000 to Children’s Medical Center Dallas to support a specialized art program for stem cell transplant patients in the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCBD) at Children’s. This program is an essential component of quality pediatric health care, Child Life’s primary goal is to minimize the impact of illness [...]
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Today, 46 children will be diagnosed with cancer. Seven will lose their battle.
Did you know September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
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.
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra cranial solid tumor cancer in children.
Today, up to 75% of the children with cancer can be cured, yet, some forms of childhood cancers have proven so resistant to treatment that, in spite of research, a cure is illusive.
