September is Childhoood Cancer Awarness Month
Raise Awareness About Childhood Cancer
It's every parent's worst nightmare. Finding out your child has cancer can be the most terrifying experience a parent can endure. Although relatively rare, children continue to be diagnosed with cancer each year.
Fast Facts About Childhood Cancer
- This year, over 9,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer.
- Cancer is the leading cause of death among children.
- Over 1500 children died of cancer in 2005.
- Children tend to develop different types of cancer than adults.
Children can suffer from several types of cancer, such as
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Bone cancer
- Brain and spinal cord cancer
- Ewing's Sarcoma
- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Osteosracoma
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Wilm's Tumor
Unfortunately, many of the causes and risk factors of childhood cancer are not known.
Last night Rocky and I took the evening off from running to meet Olivia and our friends Kathy & Rick and their new baby Ava at Havana's in Walnut Creek. Kathy and her family live in Idaho, they moved back a few years ago, we don't get to see them very often so taking the night off was a must. We had a great time catching up with them and visiting with cute little Miss Ava, she is adorable.
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