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 Each Year, over 8,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer.
Each Year over 2,000 children in the United states will die of cancer.
Approximately 1 in 330 children in the United States will develop cancer before the age of 20.
Cancer in children is the leading cause of non-accidental death. The improvement in prognosis in recent years has reduced the number of children's deaths to 35%.
There has been a great improvement in survival rates for childhood cancer since the 1960's with a survival rate of approximately 75% in the last 5 year period.
The mortality rate has decreased nearly 50% from 1973 to 1996 and has continued to decrease in the 1990s at the rate of 2.7% per year.
Many of the treatments for adults with cancer were first developed as treatments for childhood cancer. |
