september marks National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, drawing attention to the leading cause of death by disease in children throughout the united states.
please visit
http://www.thenccs.org/home or
http://www.curesearch.org/index.aspx to find out more about children with cancer & what you can do to make a difference!
my best friend at school is 7 yrs old & she is so sweet, pretty, kind, brave, happy & has the best hat collection i've ever seen. she loves to play princess, do goofy dances, play the guitar, sing, hang from the monkey bars & she also has leukemia.
for childhood cancer awareness month i'm helping raise awareness of children's cancer and raising funds for research by participating in the CureSearch Young Artists Program. i've sent in 5 pieces of works of art to CureSearch & i'm hoping one of them will be chosen to be printed on gift shop items or featured in public awareness materials... that would be the best thing ever!!!
here are some facts about childhood cancer:
~close to 75% of children diagnosed with cancer can ultimately be cured!
~childhood leukemia once was a most dreaded disease that meant almost certain death for a child diagnosed with it. today, thanks to advances in research and medical treatments, over 80% of childhood leukemia patients survive!
~the “rate of survival” for children with cancer has improved over the years more than for any other age group due to the successes in pediatric oncology research!
~even with the amazing progress in recent years, childhood cancer is responsible for killing more children and teenagers every year than any other disease!
~one person out of every 330 will develop cancer before age 20!
~each day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
~although cure rates are steadily increasing, 35% of children cancer patients will die.
~cancer remains the number one disease killer of children; more than genetic anomalies, cystic fibrosis, and AIDS combined.
~ about 4,000 children die from cancer each year. that's 11 children every single day, every single year.
~childhood cancers are cancers that primarily affect children, teens, and young adults. when cancer strikes children and young adults it affects them differently than it would an adult.
~on the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year.
~on the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. the average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.
underneath all the sickness & being bald they're just like any other kid, they want to swing from the monkey bars, go to birthday parties & giggle over silly things. so please take the time & make a difference in a child with cancer's life, just a smile and a wave can mean a lot. :-)
excited... she loves dinosaurs! she's been waiting for this day since school started, she was so excited she barely slept last night. she loves how they roar & the way they walk side to side. we decided she had to have a one of a kind homemade dinosaur shirt to celebrate that said "i love dinosaurs"! she also wore her dinosaur toms, dinosaur hoodie, mommy made her a stegosaurus sandwich & packed her lunch in her dinosaur lunchbox, & livi also took her favorite stuffed dinosaurs for show & tell. when she got to school her teachers had decorated the whole class with dinoesaurs! in her music class they sang her favorite song "we are the dinosaurs" by laurie berkner, she was singing at the top of her lungs & stomping her feet all out! her class also made t-rex's out of paper plates, now that is what i call awesome. her class also became palaeontologist's & dug in the mulch outside to find dinosaurs... she loved that!!! livi's teachers even brought in special dinosaurs cookies for snack time & livi even got to bring some home to share. she also got a really cool dinosaur stamp on her arm so everyone would know she is onr dino loving girl!!! livi made sure everyone knew she was a happy dinosaur & she didn't roar too mean so she didn't scary anyone. she had such a great time today, she wants everyday to be dinosaur day.
