About CureSearch for Children's Cancer
CureSearch for Children's Cancer funds and supports the lifesaving research of the Children's Oncology Group, the world's largest cooperative pediatric cancer research organization—essentially a "cancer center without walls."
CureSearch funds pediatric cancer clinical trials of the Children's Oncology Group. As the grantee from the National Cancer Institute, CureSearch manages the NCI funds and distributes them - along with private philanthropic and non-governmental funds - to the more than 230 Children's Oncology Group member institutions in North America and around the world to support clinical trials.
The Children's Oncology Group network includes more than 5,000 physicians, nurses, and other clinical and laboratory investigators who treat more than 90% of children with cancer in the United States.
About Children's Cancer
- Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among children.
- Each year, nearly 13,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed for the first time - that's an average of 37 children diagnosed each day.
- One of every five children who are diagnosed with cancer dies, and three of every five suffer devastating, long-term side effects.
- Cancer claims the lives of more children than all other childhood diseases combined
- The average age of diagnosis for a child with cancer is 6 years old
- More than 40,000 children are currently undergoing treatment for cancer
Hope and Help Through Research
- Through the collaborative research supported and funded by CureSearch, the Children's Oncology Group has improved cure rates for children's cancer at a pace much faster than any one individual or single institution could accomplish alone.
- During the last 40 years, research has taken children's cancer from a virtually incurable disease 40 years ago to one with an overall cure rate of 78% today. Our goal is a 100% cure rate for children's cancer.
- Only research cures children's cancer.
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