Pediatric Cancer
The name of Mr. Wiggins Foundation
What is Cannonball Kids Cancer?
A procedure often used to take a tissue sample for the purpose of testing for cancer cells.
What is a biopsy?
What is cancer of the lymphatic system?
To take out a cancerous mass.
What is surgical removal?
Represents prostate cancer.
The most common type of childhood cancer.
What is Leukemia? (makes up 30% of all childhood cancers combined)
Final or most progressed stage of a cancer diagnosis.
What is Stage IV?
Cancer of the blood forming tissues.
What is leukemia?
Uses high doses of this to kill or shrink cancer cells.
What is radiation therapy?
Represents kidney cancer and leukemia.
What is the color orange?
The least common childhood cancer.
What is Neuroblastoma?
When cancer cells spread from one organ system or area of the body to another.
What is metastisis?
Cancer that starts in the skin or lining of an organ.
What is carcinoma?
The kind of drug administered to kill cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy?
A purple ribbon.
Every 2 minutes.
How often is a child diagnosed with cancer?
Usually the first symptom felt by a person with an undiagnosed cancer.
What is fatigue?
Cancer of connective tissue such as bones or muscles.
What is a sarcoma?
A micrographic surgery used to treat skin cancer.
What is Moh's surgery?
A black ribbon.
What color symbolizes skin cancer?
Cutting edge research shows promise that this virus may help treat neuroblastomas.
What is Herpes Simplex?
Most common first symptom detected by a person with breast cancer.
What is a lump in the breast?
The most serious type of skin cancer.
What is melanoma?
A biological therapy that uses living cells to help your own body fight cancer.
What is immunotherapy?
A white ribbon.
What color symbolizes lung cancer?