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| Advocate for your health with hundreds of online petitions about aging, children's health, drug safety, food safety, reproductive rights, women's health and more at Care2's The Petition Site, where making a difference is fast, easy and free. ... |
Sunday, May 04, 2008 --- 83 days ago http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/CureChildhoodCancer
| Childhood Cancer is the #1 killer disease of our children That's AJ , forever my 14 year old son. Always smiling. Happy, healthy, athletic and a joy to be around. Horribly, AJ left us on January 5th, 2008 after an 8 month long battle with childhood cancer. We are doing this for AJ and the hundreds of other kids we have come to know through this experience. Again - childhood cancer is the #1 killer disease of our children , more than from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and pediatric AIDS combined. One in 300 children will be diagnosed with cancer before age 20. Each year 3,000 children die, and 35-40,000 are in treatment. Our war against this disease is vastly under-funded and under -publicized. It is estimated at only 3% of all cancer research money goes towards childhood cancer. A bill being "debated" in Congress will fund $30 million a year toward research, or what we spend in our overseas wars in 2 hours. And, until your child is 1 of the 300, you probably aren't even aware of the magnitude of the problem, just like we weren't. But hundreds of thousands of us are aware, and we challenge the news media give our children the time and spotlight they deserve. This story needs to be on 20/20, Dateline, 60 Minutes and every single one you can think of. You will see how these kids face fear, pain, boredom and the unknown, many times for years on end. It will be obvious these kids ... |
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