The leading cause of death by disease among US children ages 1-14.
What is pediatric cancer.
100
A cancer whose common symptoms include anorexia and abdominal pain and distention but elevated urinary catecholamines (HVA and VMA) are pathognomonic.
What is Neuroblastoma.
100
What is the average age of diagnosis for a child?
What is 6 years old.
100
An organization that spends 96% of its budget on adult cancers and only 4% of its budget on children’s cancers.
What is National Cancer Institute.
100
A foundation created in 2000 by a 4-year-old girl in the battle against childhood cancer.
What is Alex's Lemonade Stand.
200
These (Chemotherapy, Radiation, Surgery, Immune-based therapies, Bone marrow transplants) are ____________.
What is treatments.
200
A cancer that generally develops during puberty and occurs primarily in the distal femur and proximal tibia. The most common bone cancer of childhood cancer.
What is Osteosarcoma.
200
“Your child has cancer,” might be the most chilling words parents can hear, and yet this year alone this devastating message will be delivered to more than ________ families.
What is 260,000.
200
This organization gave one cent ($0.01) of every dollar ($1) of public support to childhood cancer research while twenty eight cents ($0.28) is allotted for administration and fundraising costs.
What is The American Cancer Society.
200
A race car driver who has a foundation called "Kick It For Children's Cancer."
What is Jeff Gordon.
300
The average age of death for a child with cancer.
What is 8.
300
A cancer which is commonly discovered by the findings of anemia, especially if accompanied by reticulocytopenia or a high mean corpuscular volume, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia or leukocytosis.
What is Leukemia.
300
In ___% of kids, cancer has already spread to other areas of the body by the time it is diagnosed.
What is 80.
300
In 20 years, this organization has initially approved only two drugs for any childhood cancer.
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
300
This month is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, yet nationally it goes unrecognized.
What is September.
400
Cancer kills more children than _____, _____, _____, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined.
What is AIDs, asthma, and diabetes.
400
A cancer that can be found anywhere in the central nervous system.
What is a Brain Tumor.
400
The generally preferred method of imaging in a child suspected of an intracranial or CNS space-occupying lesion.
What is MRI.
400
According to NCI, in 2010 about $122 million was spent on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (one form of childhood cancer) while __________ received $631 million.
What is breast cancer.
400
Like other forms of cancer, childhood cancer has an international symbol, the _____ ribbon. (A color)
What is gold.
500
1 out of __ children with cancer will not survive.
What is 8.
500
The FOUR most common childhood cancers.
What is leukemias, lymphomas, brain tumors, and bone cancers.
500
Worldwide, a child is diagnosed every __ minutes.
What is 3.
500
The U.S. invests approximately $595,000 for research per victim of pediatric ____ and only $20,000 for each victim of childhood cancer.
What is AIDS.
500
For the first year ever (2014), this tourist attraction lit up in gold to bring awareness to pediatric cancer.