For every dollar spent on a patient with breast cancer, less than 3 cents is spent on a child with cancer.
The American Cancer Society spends less than 70 cents of each 100 dollars raised on childhood cancer.
Only one new drug has been approved to combat pediatric cancer since 1980, yet 50 medications were approved to fight adult cancers over that same period.
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) federal budget was $4.6 billion. Of that, breast cancer received 12%, prostate cancer received 7%, and all 12 major groups of pediatric cancers combined received less than 3%.
Cancer kills more children than any other disease, more than Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Diabetes and Pediatric AIDS combined.
There are 15 children diagnosed with cancer for every one child diagnosed with pediatric AIDS