Cure Childhood Cancer - Raise Awareness & Funding
by: PAC2 - People Against Childhood Cancer
recipient: President Obama, NCI, US Government, News media - we need your help!
That's AJ, forever our 14 year old son - always smiling, happy, healthy, athletic and a joy to be around. So sadly, AJ left us on January 5th, 2008, a victim of childhood cancer. He was just one of the 3,000 CHILDREN every year that die from cancer - the #1 cause of death by disease for kids! America must increase childhood cancer research funding and raise awareness of childhood cancer - the #1 killer disease of our children! Join People Against Childhood Cancer (PAC2) and fight back for our kids!By signing you support these goals:
#1 - A call to President Obama to include a major line item in his budget to help fund research to save our children, as prioritized and requested by the American citizenry in the Citizen's Briefing Book prepared by the 2009 Obama transition team.
#2 - A call for the National Cancer Institute to more than "a pretty good effort" in funding for medical research specific to childhood cancer treatments. #StepUp #MoreThan4
#3 - Awareness: We call on the news media to investigate the lack of funding for childhood cancer research. Investigate the lies, damn lies and statistics that are the reality of NCI funding for the most innocent Americans, our kids.
#1 - Childhood cancer is the #1 killer disease of our children, more than from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and pediatric AIDS combined.
#2 - 1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer before age 20.
#3 - Each year more than 3,000 children die and 40,000 are in treatment.
#4 - The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) federal budget was $4.6 billion. Of that, breast cancer received 12%, prostate cancer 7%; while all 12 major groups of childhood cancers combined less than 4%!
#5 - Childhood cancer has a huge societal impact - 180,000 potential years of life are lost to it EVERY year! Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman of MD Anderson says: "Curing childhood cancers would be the equivalent of curing breast cancer in terms of potential life years saved......and 60% of survivors face long term health issues!
You can make a difference. You can help. Please sign and pass it on.