Additional Information
Families Helping Families
The Childhood Cancer Lifeline has provided nearly $400,000 in direct cash assistance to NH families.
This includes:
• Over $85,000 in emergency funding
• Over $50,000 in meal vouchers
• Over $155,000 in grocery assistance
• Over $10,000 in gas cards
• Over $85,000 in laptops for kids with cancer
Registration & Entry Fee (Run & Walk)
Mail-in Registration postmarked by 9/1/2011
Kids –ages 5 and Under = Free
Ages 6 – 12 = $10.00
Ages 13 and up = $25.00
Registration after 9/1/2011 and race day
Kids –ages 5 and Under = Free
Ages 6 – 12 = $15.00
Ages 13 and up = $30.00
CHILDHOOD CANCER FACTS
One in 330 children will be diagnosed with cancer prior to the age of 20. While rare in comparison to cancer in adults, each year in NH approximately 70 families hear the words “Your child has cancer.”
For those families, life is never, ever, the same.
Despite advances in treatment, childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease in children. Leukemia remains the most commonly diagnosed form of pediatric cancer, followed by brain tumors.
Treatment protocols can be lengthy, up to 3 years, causing great stress upon and increased expenses for families. Of those children diagnosed with cancer,
25% will lose their battle within 5 years of diagnosis.
Pediatric cancer survivors face chronic illnesses as adults - with 2/3 reporting at least one chronic health condition, and 1/4 living with a severe chronic health condition.
