02/15/2026
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Today, February 15th, marks International Childhood Cancer Awareness Day, a global initiative aimed at elevating awareness about childhood cancer.
Despite advances in medical science, the clear causes behind most cancers that occur in children remain unidentified.
The most common types of childhood cancers are:
🧡Leukemia: Among all childhood cancers, leukemia represents 30% of cases because it develops in blood-forming tissues. Among children, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a primary form of leukemia.
🩶 Brain Tumours: Children experience brain tumors as the foremost type of solid cancer affecting their bodies. Medical experts detect these growths throughout different brain areas where they may prove to be either cancerous or benign (not cancerous).
💚Lymphomas: Two types of lymphatic system cancer affect children: Hodgkin lymphoma together with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
💛 Neuroblastoma: Neuroblastoma represents the cancer formation within nerve cells beyond the brain and spinal cord which primarily affects children.
🧡Wilms Tumour: Wilms Tumor develops as a kidney cancer, particularly in children under 5 years of age.
💛Bone Cancers: The two primary bone cancers in youngsters and adolescents are Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma.
💛Sarcoma: Soft tissue sarcomas refer to cancers originating from body tissues that comprise muscle tissue, connective tissues, and fat cells.
💛Retinoblastoma: A cancer of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
✨️Today, if you can please wear Gold (the color that represents Childhood Cancer), or a Cancer Warrior inspired shirt, talk about Childhood cancer. Childhood Cancer research is severely underfunded, it is not rare, our children are more precious than gold and deserve more federal funding.
Be their voice spread awareness. 🎗