This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chapman chapter.
If you didn’t already know, September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. These statistics are meant to educate, not scare, because research in this field is very underfunded.
- Almost 700 children are diagnosed with cancer every day.
- By the age of 20, 1 in 285 children would have been diagnosed.
- The average age of a child being diagnosed is 6.
- Childhood cancer research also helps the progression of adult cancer research.
- Childhood cancer is not necessarily inherited. Cause is difficult to identify, because it is harder to track what children are exposed to and how it affects mutations in genes.
If this at all triggers you, definitely take the step to learn even more and see what you can do to help out.