Facts about childhood cancer

• Every day in the UK 4 children are diagnosed with childhood cancer

• Each day 1 child will die from childhood cancer in the UK

• 200,000 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year
  
  
• In the UK , one child in 600 is diagnosed with childhood cancer
  
  
• One in four children do not survive their illness
  
  
• Even when cancer treatment is successful, the side effects can be devastating, ranging from:
  • second cancers
  • infertility
  • severe learning difficulties
  • permanent sensory impairment
  • growth abnormalities
  • cosmetic deformity in later life
    
    
• For some childhood cancers, the survival rate has not changed since the 1970s
  
  
• In developed countries, childhood cancer is the principal cause of death from disease between infancy and adulthood.

 
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