12,400 children (in the United States) are diagnosed with cancer
each year. That's a classroom full of children every single day,
year after Currently, one in every 330 children in the United
States develops cancer before the age of nineteen. The incidence
of cancer among children is increasing. Each school day, enough
children are diagnosed with childhood cancer to empty two
classrooms! (*NCCF) About 4,000 children die from cancer each
year. That's 11 children every single day, every single year.
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the entire family is
affected. Treatment is often lengthy, and always time-consuming.
Some diagnoses are treated outpatient for over three years;
others require lengthy inpatient stays. Siblings of children
with cancer face an entire set of emotional challenges, from
wondering if they are to blame for their sibling's diagnosis, to
feelings of jealousy for all the attention and gifts the child
with cancer is receiving, to feeling abandoned by their parents
as the parents (necess