2. Cancer
causes 1
out of 4
deaths in
the
United
States.

3. This year only
about
580,350
Americans
are
expected to
die of cancer
that is nearly
1,600 people
a day.

4. The overall
survival
rate for
childhood
cancer has
increased
drastically
over the
past year.

5. Ronan Thompson was diagnosed with neuroblastma, a very serious brain
cancer popular among infants, a couple months after his third birthday.
Ronan was only three years old when he died, 3 days before his 4th birthday.
Mrs. Thompson then created
a blog about his son after he
passed. Taylor Swift then
found out about this precious
kids’ story. 650-700 kids are
found to have neuroblastma
a year.

6. By the time
a cancer
patient is
5-14 years
old, they
already
have a
45%
chance of
death
caused by
cancer.

7. The Children
Cancer
Foundation is
trying to help
America’s poor
cancer kids in
need. They help
with financial
problems and in
help with finding a
cure.

9. People need your help in
finding a cure. All over,
people have to cut their lives
short, so go help be apart of
something different.

10.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC199
4799/
 http://www.acco.org/Information/AboutChildhoo
dCancer/ChildhoodCancerStatistics.aspx
 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/a-childs-
cancer-story-inspires-taylor-swift/
 http://www.childrenscancerfoundation.org/