In 2017, cancer stole 11.5 million years of healthy life away from children.
Each Day, 47 children are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S.
In 2024, approximately 14,900 children in the US were diagnosed with cancer.
The average age of diagnosis is 6 years old for children (0-14), 17 for adolescents (15-19), in comparison to the average age of diagnosis for adults being 66 years of age.
Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children in the U.S.
Only 4% of US federal funding for cancer research is spent on childhood cancers.
