Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.
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