Facts about Cancer in Children
Cancer is bad enough when it affects adults. It becomes a tragedy, however, when the disease enters the body of children. There are some very interesting and often surprising statistics about cancer with children.
10,730 — the number of new cases that are estimated to occur among children aged 0 to 14 years during 2009.
1 — the percentage of all new cancer diagnoses that involve children.
1380 — the estimated number of deaths that are expected to take place among children under the age of 15 during 2009.
33 — the percentage of cancer related child deaths that are from leukemia.
2 — Cancer is the second leading cause of death among children in the United States. It is only exceeded I accidents.
50 — the percentage that cancer deaths among children have declined since 1975. The American Cancer Society attributes this huge decline by the substantial progress to new treatments and clinical trials.
20 — the percentage of cancers in children that occur in the brain or other parts of the nervous system.
80 — the percentage of survival rate for all childhood cancers during the past five years.