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Pediatric (Childhood) Cancer

• 1 in 330 children will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20. (More than 12,000 children in the United States per year)
• Cancer kills more kids than AIDS, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and muscular dystrophy COMBINED.
• Over 40,000 children and teens across the US are undergoing active cancer treatment.
• The incidence of childhood cancer increased 33% between 1975 and 2001 and continues to increase every year.
• Childhood cancers have no known causes; they are random.

Sarcomas

• Sarcomas are cancers of connective tissue. (bone, muscle, fat, cartilage, some soft tissue), and make up 20% of all pediatric cancers.
• There are over 50 types of pediatric sarcoma, they account for 20% of all pediatric cancers.
• 99% of all sarcomas occur in children.
• Each sarcoma, individually, is so rare that it is listed as an "orphan disease".

Ewing's sarcoma (Cancer of the bone)

• As a form of bone cancer, Ewing's sarcoma occurs most often in adolescents and young adults. (AYA)
• Most are often diagnosed between 10 and 20 years old; about 250 adolescents are diagnosed each year in the US.
• The overall survival rate is 60%; however, for patients with localized disease (no spread), the survival rate approaches 70%.
• The cancer often spreads (metastasizes) from bones to other organs such as the lungs; metastasis is present in about 33% of children and teens at diagnosis. These young patients have a long-term survival rate of less than 25%. (Metastasis at diagnosis drops chances of 5-year survival rates to about 20%.)
• More commonly strikes boys than girls.
• A tumor can arise in or around any bone in the body with few symptoms to warn the child that there's a problem.

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