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Every school day 46 children are diagnosed with cancer and every 16 hours a child with neuroblastoma dies.
Ishan was just 18 months when a low grade fever turned into every parent's worst nightmare with the words "your child has cancer". He died just six months later from a rare pediatric cancer called neuroblastoma.
Ishan never had a chance to start Kindergarten or learn how to ride a bike without training wheels. And, sadly, he's not alone. Neuroblastoma generally strikes kids under the age of 5. Many of these kids will die, yet very few people are aware of this horrible disease. As a result there is very little funding available for pediatric cancers like neuroblastoma.
- Roughly 650 children are diagnosed with this horrible disease each year.
- Most children diagnosed stage IV when there is little hope. At this point, these kids have a less than 30 percent chance of surviving for three years.
- Neuroblastoma accounts for 15% of all pediatric cancer deaths.
- Cancer remains the number one disease killer of America's children.
What is Neuroblastoma?
Neuroblastoma is a form of cancer that starts in certain types of very primitive developing nerve cells found in an embryo or fetus. (The term neuro indicates "nerves," while blastoma refers to a cancer that affects immature or developing cells). This type of cancer occurs in infants and young children. It is rarely found in children older than 10 years.
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