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100% - Is What the Survival Rate Should Be For All Kids with Cancer DAY 7: KIDS ARE NOT JUST LITTLE ADULTS If your child spikes a fever in the middle of the night, do you give him two adult ibuprofen tablets with a glass of water? No, instead you reach for the bottle of children’s ibuprofen because you know the adult tablets could be harmful to him. If your child is in pain because she has broken a bone playing soccer, do you relieve her distress with vicodin or oxycontin? No, because again, you know that they could be...
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30% - The Amount of GOG Federal Funding Cuts Over the Past Ten Years Day 6: 30% - amount of COG federal funding cuts over past 10 years (adjusted for inflation) "...This is a societal injustice that is not made public because children do not have a voice. They are not represented in the media, government, or corporate worlds. They cannot organize massive fundraising drives for themselves, and they are not able to gain the attention of adults who can do something about their plight. Pharmaceutical companies stay away because there is no profit in pediatric cancer research, the government...
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90% – The Number of Kids with Cancer Treated at COG (Children’s Oncology Group) Hospitals "Most kids in Alabama spend 180 days in school each year. Due to John Oliver’s cancer diagnosis, the accompanying intensive treatment plan, and his weakened immune system, he has missed his entire first-grade school year. Instead, my sweet boy has spent 180 nights in the hospital, and countless days visiting the outpatient oncology clinic for complete blood counts (CBCs), doctor exams, blood and platelet transfusions…and then there were the frantic trips to the Emergency Room to manage the frighteningly sudden onsets of fevers, pain,...
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0% - The Current Survival Rate for Many Childhood Cancers Day 4: 0% - The Current Survival Rate for Most Childhood Cancers "Imagine that you had a cherubic, mischievous, energetic and moody two year old with flashing blue eyes, a brilliant smile and curly red hair. Imagine that each morning she got you up at 5:15 a.m. by standing up in her crib and shouting, "Maaamaaa, I'm awaaaake! Maaamaaa, where are you?" Imagine if when you went into her room she threw both her arms up towards you in a great big hug and chattered her way into the...
71 Years
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71 Years Lost - The Average Amount of Years a Child Loses That Dies of Cancer Talia's Mom was asked by The American Childhood Cancer Organization, or ACCO, to write what she felt would happen if Talia has another 71 years of life, which is the average amount of time that is robbed from a child who dies from cancer. This video is very emotional and may be hard to watch all the way through, but it's important to understand why increased funding for Childhood Cancer research is so important. 71 LOST YEARS—A MOTHER'S PERSPECTIVE "What if she had another...