Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research

About Childhood Cancer

Did you know?

• One in every 330 Americans develops cancer before the age of twenty-one.
• On the average, two classrooms full of children and adolescents, about 46, are diagnosed with cancer every school day in the United States.
• Childhood cancer is the #1 disease killer of children ages 0-20 in the United States.
• On the average, one in every four elementary schools has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are current or former cancer patients.
• The causes of most childhood cancers are unknown. At present, childhood cancer cannot be prevented.
• Childhood cancers affect more potential patient-years of life than any other cancer except breast and lung cancer.
• Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class, or geographic region. In the United States, the incidence of cancer among adolescents and young adults is increasing at a greater rate than any other age group, except those over 65 years.
• Rally Foundation mission is to fund childhood cancer research through grassroots initiatives find better treatments with fewer long-term side effects and cures
• For every dollar Rally receives, 93 cents goes to support all phases of childhood cancer research according to our audited financials.

Adult Cancer vs. Childhood Cancer Chart

“We have heard it said over and over again about someone dying of cancer, that they ‘lost their battle,’ but we refuse to see it that way. Cancer may have taken the life out of Shelby’s body, but it couldn’t put a dent in her spirit which continues to touch our lives and the lives of people we may never know. Our relationships with our families and friends have become stronger. We have met many new friends that we have come to love and rely on.”

- Bruce Prescott, Shelby’s father

Read Bruce Prescott’s Journal Entry about the day he found out Shelby had cancer.