“These are words a parent never wants to hear: “Your child has cancer.”

While relatively rare, pediatric cancers are the leading cause of death from disease among children in the United States.

Over the past several decades, the five-year survival rate for pediatric cancer has improved, increasing from around 58-68% in the 1970s to 83-88% in recent years.

Despite those advances, approximately 1,600 children and adolescents in the United States die of cancer each year.

The most common types of cancers in children are acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors, lymphoma, germ cell tumors and neoplasms, soft tissue sarcoma, and neuroblastoma.”

American Association for Cancer Research – AACR (Childhood Cancer Awareness Month | AACR)