CHEMO TREATMENT #26 FOR TREVOR & FACTS!

Trevor Tredaway is 4 Years Old and He is Winning!
Let Him Inspire You to Become Involved.
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Good Morning: Trevor Tredaway has successfully completed Chemo treatment #26 after beginning this regimen 6 months ago. He is such a happy, spirited little boy who manages to balance meeting new friends, playing and focusing on getting well. Melinda has a new post about Trevor over on his Caringbridge site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/trevortredaway. Melinda was generous in sharing some Facts about Childhood cancer. If you love children, if you are a parent or hope to become one at some point in the future, take a few moments to read this:-

The Facts and Faces of Childhood Cancer

• Cancer remains the number one disease that claims the lives of our children. Each year cancer kills more children under the age of 20 than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined.

• Each year in the U.S., approximately 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. That’s the equivalent of two average size classrooms diagnosed each school day.

• Today, nearly 80 percent of children diagnosed with cancer become long-term survivors and the majority of them are considered cured. In the early 1950s, less than 10 percent of childhood cancer patients could be cured.

• Leukemia's, tumors of the brain and nervous system, the lymphatic system, kidneys, bones and muscles are the most common childhood cancers.

• In the U.S., cancer remains responsible for more deaths from one year through adolescence than any other disease; more deaths than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined.

• Combined, the cancers of children, adolescents and young adults to age 20 are the sixth most common cancer in the U.S.

• Breakthroughs in pediatric oncology will undoubtedly continue to progress the diagnosis and treatment of adult cancers. Many of the principles in therapy used today in treating adults were first developed and tested for children.

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We will not take this sitting down. This BLOG Page encourages activism that is positive and kind to make significant progress for children like little Trevor. I invite you to take a look back at previous posts on Trevor and to join our growing Team of Volunteers mobilized to make "A Concert for Trevor" a reality. I can tell you from "behind the scenes", we are gradually making measure able progress--my favorite kind!

Have a Terrific Wednesday Everyone!