"But even for kids who survive, the battle is not over. Because of the treatments they had as kids, by the time they’re 45, more than 95% of survivors will have a chronic health problem and 80% will have severe or life-threatening conditions." ~St. Baldricks Foundation.
In addition to finding cures for childhood cancers, we need to focus on less toxic treatments and cures!
When Silas was being treated we were given long lists of possible late term affects of the treatments. He probably would have never been able to have children, he could have lost his hearing, his teeth probably would have been very bad the rest of his life, he could have developed a secondary cancer caused by the chemotherapy, and the list goes on.
To me this is unacceptable. We must fund research so that less toxic treatments with more positive outcomes can be found. There are so many breakthroughs around the corner in the world of childhood cancer research, but there needs to be more funding so they can be discovered faster so that fewer children have to die from the cancer or be permanently injured by the treatment.
Many children fighting cancer today do not have 5 or 10 years, or even 1 year to wait for a breakthrough in childhood cancer treatment.
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