September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood cancer awareness month. I stole these facts from a friend's blog. I was never very aware of childhood cancers until this happened to me. Even being in the medical field I shied away from cancer kids. Why do we do that? I now have a love of bald heads. I know these kids are just like any other kids. They just spend a lot of time feeling like crap. I have also heard all of these facts from doctors themselves. Its so scary. Everyone knows about breast cancer but not many people think about kids getting cancer. I NOW think cancer is something everyone should at least know exists. So here you go, my attempt to make people aware of childhood cancers....

Cancer is the #1 cause of death from disease in children ages 1-19 in the U.S.

Every school day, another 46 children are diagnosed with cancer

Only 3% of cancer research money goes toward childhood cancers

In the past 35 years, ONLY ONE new cancer drug has been approved for pediatric use.

Since children can handle much more chemotherapy than can adults, most treatments are little more than mega doses of adult cancer chemotherapy treatments. The results of these high doses of chemo on children is a higher rate of secondary cancers. (Which means they live the nightmare of cancer more than once.)

Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class, or geographic region