Types of Pediatric Cancer
This cancer starts in the blood forming tissue of the bone marrow and is the most common childhood cancer.
What is leukemia?
Sending more targeted drugs into clinical trials for childhood cancers with most dire outcomes.
What is CCTDI’s mission?
Eating too much of these unhealthy foods over time can increase cancer risk later in life.
What are junk foods?
Surgical removal of a tumor is an example of this type of treatment.
What is surgery?
A group of younger leaders passionate about making childhood cancer universally survivable.
What is the Junior Board?
A cancer of the developing nerve cells, often found in and around the adrenal glands.
What is neuroblastoma?
This U.S. city is home to cc-TDI’s research lab.
What is Hillsboro, Oregon?
Breathing in smoke from these can increase a child’s chance of developing certain cancers.
What are cigarettes?
This treatment uses drugs to kill cancer cells or stop them from growing.
What is chemotherapy?
Summer program for high school students aged 16 and older with research lab exposure, fundamental research technique, and work with research mentors.
What is the summer internship?
This kidney cancer primarily affects children and is named after a famous surgeon.
What is Wilms tumor?
Since its founding in 2015, cc-TDI has published two of these into three clinical trials.
What are drugs?
Getting too much of this kind of energy from the sun without protection can increase the risk of some cancers later in life.
What is UV/sunlight?
This treatment uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells but is less commonly used in very young children due to growth risks.
What is radiation therapy?
A week-long course to train public members to be informed liaisons between childhood cancer researchers and their community.
What is the Pediatric Cancer Nanocourse?
This cancer affects the soft tissues like muscles, tendons, or fat and has subtypes called embryonal and alveolar.
What is rhabdomyosarcoma?
CCTDI runs this contest for K-12 students, inviting them to showcase work related to fighting childhood cancer.
What is the Art & Writing Contest?
Kids with this kind of family history are more likely to get certain cancers, like if a parent or close relative had cancer.
What is a family history of cancer?
Stem cell or bone marrow transplants are often used for this type of cancer, where the bone marrow is affected.
What is leukemia or lymphoma?
Hosting a bake sale, school football game, or restaurant night to support CC-TDI.
What is organizing a CCTDI fundraiser?
A type of brain tumor that accounts for about 20% of all childhood cancers, usually located in the cerebellum.
What is medulloblastoma?
On average, the FDA approves about 12 drugs each year for adults, but only this many for children over the last 47 years.
What is 13?
Babies exposed to this during pregnancy from certain medical scans may have a slightly higher risk of cancer.
What is x-ray radiation?
The long-term outlook for childhood cancer depends on the type, stage, and response to therapy, often measured in this percentage.
What is the survival rate?
Creating a social media page to honor a loved one who has suffered from childhood cancer.
What is a Honor Page?