Children's Cancer partners of the carolinas
Supporting Families Through the Journey
Children's Cancer Partners provides comprehensive support and loving compassion to families whose children are battling cancer to improve their overall quality of life. They help families in North and South Carolina overcome distance and cost barriers, so their child's care is timely and complete. Their help for children battling cancer is immediate, comprehensive and continuous until the child reaches age 21.
Connect:
- Social Media: @childrenscancerpartners
- Email: info@childrenscancerpartners.org
- Online: childrenscancerpartners.org
Did you know?
- Only 4% of all research dollars are for pediatric cancer!
- There are only 10 Pediatric Cancer Treatment Centers in NC/SC. Asheville, Charleston, Charlotte (2), Chapel Hill, Columbia, Durham, Greenville (NC), Greenville (SC) and Winston Salem.
- Children of rural and poor families face 3 times greater risk for missed or late diagnosis, incomplete treatment and relapse.
- Currently there are 1,904 Carolina children in the Children's Cancer Partners program.
- 71% (1,348) of those children live in North Carolina.
- Children's Cancer Partners offers: Treatment Travel, Lodging, Meals, Critical Homecare, Emergency Response, Certainty of access to care, Personalized financial literacy training, Connections to helping organizations and resources and much more.
The Grim facts of childhood cancer
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1 in 5 children will not survive 5 years past their diagnosis.
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1 in 3 will not survive 15 years past their diagnosis
How is childhood cancer different than Adult Cancer?
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The causes of most childhood cancers really are unknown.
- Average adult age at diagnosis is 67.
- Average child age at diagnosis is 6.