As a member of the Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2) we want to highlight the following:

• Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among children and adolescents in the United States.

• Most causes of childhood cancer are unknown and not preventable.

• The incidence of childhood cancer is on the increase.

• Most survivors will experience significant debilitating complications that result from their treatment regimes.

• Children and young adolescents who have or have had cancer are much more likely (more than 60%) to face bullying than their healthy classmates.

• Only four drugs have been developed and approved to treat pediatric cancer in the last quarter century.