Thanks for raising awareness. It is ever parent's worst nightmare, and the parents who are in the middle of the nightmare need to know they are not alone. Here's to funding research that will end the seemingly growing reign of terror cancer has in the lives of children.

Excellent Article. These little fighters are incredible. I am blessed to have 2 healthy boys and I thank God everyday for that. I read about these beautiful children who have to endure such a fate and it just isn't acceptable. Cancer needs to be stopped. These little people are such warriors. Thank you for bringing attention to such a horrific disease. I hope that more articles like this will be written and bring attention to this so that funding can be allocated so that Childhood Cancer is like dinosaurs!!! EXTINCT!!!!! God Bless you little warriors, keep up the fight. Together we can all help to win this battle!!!

Thank you for bringing this to the public's attention...not nearly enough is being done to find a cure for this evil disease that ends so many lives before they have hardly started. We need a cure!

My nephew, Trevor was diagnosed four years ago on October 6th, 2004 with ALL. It stunned our entire family, although we always knew in our hearts that he had the strength of 10 men and that he would fight this disease with everything that he had, it was the scariest, most heart-wrenching 3 1/2 years of our entire family's lives (but especially to my sister and my brother in law and my niece and nephew). But they all stood up and put their best foot forward and got my nephew through some very rough times. I am so thankful to anyone who brings awareness to this horrible disease and I hope that more people will finally get how very important it is to get involved and be apart of the awareness and need to stop this deadly disease once and for all. To all of the families out there going through the struggle and pain of watching their child fight this horrific disease, please know that you are not alone and that your children are being prayed for and with God's Blessings, all of your prayers will be answered and one day we will have a cure and then no other family will ever have to go through what all of you have been through. Please keep the faith and know that there are people out there who truly do care.

Thank you so much for putting this photo essay together. That any child and any parent and any grandparent, or sibling or aunt or uncle has to go through this is unacceptable. Until I had my daughter I didn't understand how unacceptable. I hope I never find out first hand how truly unacceptable. Please continue to fight to get more exposure for these brave kids and their struggles and triumphs.

Childhood Cancer is real.. You don't realize how many kids are being treated for cancer until you are thrown into the battle. My son was diagnosed with a brain tumor two years ago on Oct. 2, 2006, at the age of six. We need to find out what causes this disease and how to stop it!!!!.

Thank you for bring awareness to Childhood Cancer. We can no longer “turn our heads”. These children and their families deserve a cure. They have waited long enough. Now is the time.

Thank you for raising awareness for childhood cancer! My daughter, Mara Jane was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma in June 2006. We had never heard of it before that time. Now at 2 1/2 years old, she is stable and doing well despite her loss of vision.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your article on childhood cancer. Although I have never been "directly" affected by pediatric cancer, I follow tons, TOO MANY children's webpages documenting their journey (some of which you show above) that are battling cancer or who have won their battle and are in Heaven. What an amazing, touching, gut wrenching, thought provoking peace. It's about time that Childhood Cancer got some sort of recognition!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS STORY AND SHOWING THE PICTURES OF SOME CHILDREN AFFECTED BY THIS ALONG WITH THEIR FAMILIES!!!!

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

There needs to be more coverage like this to help raise awareness....these awful cancers are taking our children. September was Childhood Cancer Awareness month.....and unfortunately I heard little about it!

Your pictures are incredible although I wish that there were no pediatric cancer patients to take pictures of. Thank you for your bravery in documenting this and sharing it with the world. I pray that this will open people's eyes to the immensity of this problem. I urge anyone and everyone to get involved, donate your time and/or money to the cause, and really make a difference.

It is so good to finally see so much attention brought to our poor sick children. Thank you for sharing your article and all the photos and we wish EVERY month could be cancer awareness month!

Yes, we certainly need to raise awareness and funding participation for less invasive and less toxic treatments and ultimately for cures. The public should also be aware that over 75% of the drugs used in treating adult cancers originated from studies in children with cancer. Therefore, there should be strong support for the pediatric studies since they benefit a large population of adults and children.

Special thanks go out to organizations like the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation www.pbtfus.org that have raised over $40 million in private research funds and have created collaborative efforts among multiple researchers that did not exist because of the natural competitive forces in the field. Now, we need to be able to invest that kind of money each year rather than over 25 years.

There are 12,500 new faces and family stories just like these -- each and every year in the US. Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death in children by disease in our country. Only research will improve these images and these odds.

Thank you Boston Globe for sharing these faces of childhood cancer.

Thank you for taking the time to make notice of this nasty disease that is affecting our innocent children. Please continue to spread the word!
Bless these children and families.

Thank you for your article on Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Like so many others have said, we must find a cure as these young children do not deserve to go through this nor do their families and loved ones. We hear so much about other cancers but how much do we really hear about childhood cancer? They are our future as much as they are ours now and we can't stand to see them suffer the way they do. Just visit www.caringbridge.org and you will find thousands of kids that are battling for their lives. Please continue to help spread the word, not just during this month, but always. You can also sign up to be a Marrow Donor and potentially save someones life that is currently in need of a transplant. Visit www.marrow.org

Thank you for helping spread the news about childhood cancer. The pictures were very touching.

thanks for helping us all become aware of this devasting disease. it is so sad to see these little ones suffer and battle through this horrible disease--you helped bring childhood cancer to the front of the pack--i only wich that it could be in every newspaper and legislatures hands...prying for this to happen

Photos say so much. Thanks for sharing about these beautiful children.

Thank you for drumming up awareness. Childhood cancer marched into our lives on February 3, 2006 and we will never be the same...our entire family has been changed. Our son is still on treatment for his luekemia, but will finish treatment next spring. Please keep the awareness going! We need to bond together to make a difference in this battle! Please check out our newly formed website to support cancer families! www.kidscanmn.org

Thanks for doing this story to help raise awarness. I pray this gets the ball rolling and more awarness is shared. Beautiful job.

I am the mother of a child with cancer. He is 26 now, but still my child. I am so grateful for the research already done that has enabled him to still be with us. It's terribly sad to see these babies who did not make it, but I hope their families know that they have not died in vain. Thanks to them for their courage.

I pray daily for a cure for this horrible disease. God bless these children and their families~~~~~

Thank you for bringing awareness to this. It's frustrating -- some cancers, like breast cancer, get so much funding and advertising -- it's even taken on an aura of being about empowerment. But childhood cancer is so hard for people to think about ... so they don't. Bald children with big dark eyes make people feel sad, so it's easier to just not think about it. Until a doctor says, "I'm sorry, but your child has cancer."
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Thank you for your story to raise awareness. The photography was ... stunning and positively heartbreaking. I am a parent of three (praise God) healthy babies ages 4 and under and I can't even imagine being faced with this disease. It is truly amazing to see how people from all over come together and pray and hope and ........ fight........ together. Your bringing awareness is truly the most important thing that you can do. Hopefully one day, we'll see as much gold in September as we do Pink in October.

To all the parents who have lost your little angels - my heart breaks for you and I hope that they can find a cure to this horrible disease one day so kids don't have to keep going through this.

This article brings so much NEEDED attention to childhood cancer. Just because some of us do not want to think about it, it does not make it go away. We need to come together as a whole to protect our children. Our children are the future. It is our job as parents and people to give these children HOPE. To give them their lives back. We need to come together and do all we can to raise awareness for these childhood diseases, to raise money for research, to donate our time, to volunteer. It is important that we work together to help heal our children.
Take a stand. Make a difference. Thank you for this article. Thank you to the families who let us into their world . you are all in my prayers.

This is so important for the public to realize how many kids and their families are affected by this horrible disease. My sister just lost her 7 year old grandson - he had neuroblastoma cancer. My granddaughter-in-laws 14 year old brother is battling Burkitts lymphoma. There are thousands of children that need a cure found NOW. Thank you for spreading word.

Thank you so much for this article - the pictures speak volumes. My 4 year old son was diagnosed 2 years ago with a cancerous brain tumor - NO child should have to endure this - it robs them of their childhood and so much more. We pray the chemo and radiation will be the cure, but the treatment is also poison to their little bodies and can continue for years to wreak havoc on these incredibly brave warriors! You can never know how much we appreciate this article!!

Thank you for soing this article.
I have been wondering why Childhood Cancer doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves.
One child is too many!!!
The magazines are full of PINK right now
But i hardly saw a blip for Childhood cancer awareness
I am hoping people will start to relize just how serious this is!

Having went through the childhood cancer experience with my now adult son, I am well aware of the hard work and under-funding for research our pediatric oncologists operate with. Local parent groups provide much of their research capital through fund raising efforts which are as varied as the groups themselves. My son was one of the lucky ones - they had found a fairly successful protocol just a few years before his diagnosis, and it's now over 15 years since his remission, and 8 years since he's been considered cured. He's presently studying engineering technology. But so many others are still waiting for a cure ... a friend of mine just lost her son a few days ago to AML. And I watched so many others lose their battle during treatment and since. Thank-you for helping to publicize this issue.

I never dreamed there was so much child hood cancer, until I started following the Caring Bridge site of many families. This is so scary!!!!! There needs to be more awareness to the public. There also needs to be drugs to treat these children with and not have to use adult drugs. We all need to pray for these families and doctors.

Your pictures show so much! Thank you for taking time to promote Childhood Cancer Awareness! Please continue to support this with more articles as the need for a cure is so high!

It is time for a cure...

Thank you for helping people see what families are going through. The Govt. is using BILLIONS of OUR tax dollars to bail out big business and fight wars, but what about these brave children...the war they & their families fight every day. There needs to be someway to funnel money into looking for a cure, treatment, and helping these families cover what insurance doesn't.

My husband died of cancer in November of 2006. As ill as he was, he constanlty talked with me about how hard it must be for children to have to undergo treatment. He said' "I know why I have to have to have these treatments, surgery, chemo and radiation, but a child cannot comprehend why they have so much pain."

We were always grateful that our children were healthy. That was truly a blessing. I pray for all the children and their families. that cancer affects.

Thank you for doing this article on childhood cancer. I thank God every day that this horrible monster (otherwise known as cancer) does not live at my house. Unfortunately, it is living at too many homes of people I love and care about. We have to have more funding for research for all these little ones fighting this monster. They should not have to endure more in their little lives than most adults who live to be very old. Thanks for helping to raise awareness about this problem.

Thank you for the article on Childhood Cancer. We need to bring awareness so next September every where you look you will see GOLD ribbons.
Fighting for sweet Shaelynn Sue, my angel in Heaven!!!

Thanks much for sharing the stunning pictures - each says a story that touches my heart. We need to find a cure.

Thank you very much for sharing these pictures. So many people take life for granted, but yet there are children who have such strength and courage to fight against this disease without complaint. We need to do everything in our power to find more ways to research , fund and find a cure against child cancer. My heart goes out to all the children and families that are affected by this.

As the grandmother of a little girl diagnosed at age 6 and going through a horrific 42 weeks of chemo and many radiation treatments, I can only say it is indescribable to take part in this sad sad sad scenario, let alone being little more than a baby and having to endure it and not understand why. Please give our children ( our future) more attention and funding. Let's stop this horror.
Jean Johnson

I have been working endlessly to get awareness for this DEVASTING DISEASE. Please know that we have lost over 12 friends this past year as my daughter was just declared cancer free after 14 months of osteosarcoma. (bone cancer) Age 12. You can follow her story and get info on other children to pray for at
www.caringbridge.org/visit/kennedy1
Go SOX!

"Until there's a cure, there's camp!"

Special Days Camp is one of the longest-running camps (30 years!) in the United States for children with blood or bone cancer, and their siblings. It is held in Jackson, Michigan in late July / early August each year. There is also a short winter camp session where the kids can see each other in February and play in the snow.

The best part about camps like this? Recharging your batteries. Actually getting to be a kid instead of a patient for a week (with Ped Hem/Onc docs and nurses on site, of course!) Having others there who know exactly what you're going through because they've been through the exact same thing themselves.

Please check out the website and pass the info along to anyone who might be interested. There are links to other camps and organizations on the site as well.

Special Days Camp

Thank you so much for helping to raise awareness for kids cancer! These kids can't advocate for themselves. They have experienced things that no child should ever have to know. Their stories are heartbreaking - their courage is inspirational. We, as a caring society, should not let our kids down - they deserve our financial and emotional support. Let's check our priorities, and not let another child face the horrors and uncertainty of cancer.
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Keep awareness alive. Reading of the children that live give "hope" but reading about the ones that don't bring dispare. Why is it we can fight wars, put a man on the moon and have computer technology that is unbelieveable but we can't find a cure for cancer? Our prayers are with the children that suffer and their families who witness the suffering and try to ease their pain. Keep cancer awareness alive and let's pray for a cure!

Thank you for your help in raising awareness. We hope that this leads to many more stories about childhhod cancers. It is such a devastating diagnosis for a family to hear. We too have experienced this first hand. We hope and pray that the awareness continues. Thank you so much for bringing this to the public's attention!

Thanks much for sharing the stunning pictures, i am writing from Nicaragua. can You imagine so hard in this poor and little country help this kids fighting cancer?
Prayers go out to all the kids and their families.

Thank you for spreading some awareness. These children can't stand up for themselves and fight for more funding. It's up to us their families & friends to do that for them. I wish there was as much awareness regarding childhood cancers as there is for breast cancer. Thank you again!

I'd love you to come down to the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In the midst of absolute agony there's a fountain of hope, joy and love. It's reflected in the kids faces and their parents too. See if you can capture that on film. Thank you for these images. God bless to each child,family and medic portrayed here

thank you for your pics. very touching.

We need even so much more awareness of the necessity for more funding to be directed to Childhood Cancer Research. Please keep using the powerful impact of the media to draw attention to this!

Thank you for bringing some much needed awareness to such a critical topic. These kids deserve our help.

I being a cancer myself am so grateful for the focus on kids. They are our future! They need our love, guidance and support. We must speak for them today as one they day they will speak for us. Thank you for running this story. What a reality check for what is really important!

Oh my goodness, these pictures moved me so much.. Im in so many tears right now..

These pictures really hit home with me. I just lost my mom to cancer Aug 8, 2008. She found out she had cancer 3 weeks prior to her passing. She did not even have a chance. I am glad to know there are so many people out there who care enough to try to help children or anyone with cancer. I am a member of St. Jude, and I will definitely do whatever I can to help with making these kids life a little better. It is just so hard to believe how many people are being hit with cancer, and to me it is worse knowing these children are being hit so hard with it. I hope this story makes it everywhere to make sure any and everyone possible is aware of this.

Thank you for sharing these poignant photos with us. Each picture tells a story of the journey of a child. Many of these journeys ended with triumph, but some of these journeys ended with families mourning the loss of their children. This should never be the case.
In July of 2005, we lost our daughter Rachel to Hodgkin's lymphoma. We were told that she would be fine-that Hodgkin's was the "good" kind of cancer to get. No kind of cancer can ever be considered good. She had months of chemotherapy, radiation, two stem cell transplants, several surgeries, but nothing could defeat the monster. Now we try to live life the best we can-without her.

Thanks so much for sharing these pictures...as a childhood cancer survivor this really hits home hard and brings back lots of memories...

We need to see these pictures more often....if only to put a real face and story to the terrible statistics that we read so frequently. Owyn is member of my future grand daughters' family so it really hits home God bless all these children....I pray that a cure comes soon.

I have read so many of these entries and am so glad to hear other voices speaking up. I urge you to donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a place where my 8 year old son is receiving treatment, because my husband and I fully believe 100% that a cure will come from those doors. While there are many worthy cancer organizations out there, please look at their statistics BEFORE you donate of how much money goes to childhood cancers. (Much is usually steered towards adults.) St. Jude is all about children! We will have a cure one day for every childhood cancer, but we need to raise our voices and shout!

Thank you for publishing this article...one of the few efforts I have seen among the media to bring attention to childhood cancer awareness. My then 6-year-old son was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (an inoperable brainstem tumor) just a few days after I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2007. My treatment was standard. There is no treatment for him. In fact, there has been no progress made in treating Andrew's particular form of brain cancer in over thirty years. It is only when people like you have the courage to stand up and say something that we will see change.
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Such moving and heart breaking photographs. Thank you for sharing those with us.

thank you for publishing this article----we need more attention given to childhood cancer . . . a parent's worse nightmare is to have a child suffer through any illness- and childhood cancer continues to grow

I think this is it, I'm joining the folding@home today.
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It hurts a soul to see pictures like that. We have to continue to pray for a cure!

I love'em all, just can't describe my feelings.
God Bless those beautiful angels.

God bless these tough souls!

It breaks my heart to see anyone go through such a hard journey. Please find a cure !!!!

I can only imagine what it must be like for the kids and families that deal these situations.

Thank you for bringing awareness to this life and death issue. God Bless all families touched by this horrible disease.

thank you for publishing this article and sharing the photographs and bringing awareness to childhood cancer.

I was surprised to see on the yahoo page that this article was supposed to be by Karlene Mueller. I am Karlene and I received it through an email on caringbridge.com. A father that lost his son, AJ put this together. He did a beautiful job of showing the innocent, beautiful children affected by this horrible disease called cancer. I merely passed it on to other caring people. AJ's dad is trying to make the world aware of childhood cancer. We need to eradicate this ugly life taking disease.

I found out i had Cronic Myloid Leaukemia when i was 8. Now i am 12 and i am fully recoverd i look back and realise how many children like me wer in the hospital. i know wat its like to have it. So young, so confused. Its Terrible and i wish it was extinct, it changed me, my life and my family. i was so shocked. Please cure this horrible disease.

I can't understand how Breast Cancer gets so much funding compared to Childhood Cancer!! Cancer is terrible for everyone, but I think most people would agree that nothing is more painful than seeing a child die. We need to think outside the box and learn better ways to get the donations flowing.

SIXX has done in again with over $500,000 for the make a wish founddation, no matching funds here.

Thank you for doing this article. More people need to know that cancer is killing our children, more than any other disease and needs more awareness in the public eye.

Thanks for spreading the awareness.

I am a grown man of 53 years, and I am not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby when I saw these pictures.

Perhaps it will help others to believe that these children are going to a better place...

A sad reality but beautiful pictures... We will always be grateful Julian for everything you brought into our lives. Have fun in Heaven!

speechless

This problem is worldwide. I think we should make effort so help such patients.

It is too easy to believe that chldhood cancer happens only to OTHER families, not to our own. The reality is that childhood cancer can happen to any family. For years, we had two happy, healthy children. One day, our older son started having headaches. Ten days later, he was diagnosed with an aggressive, malignant brain tumor. He is fortunate to be alive today - but, like so many of the "lucky" ones, he has been left with devastating permanent impairments. It is critical that we, as a nation, devote significant attention and the resources to fight childhood cancer. This article is a first stsep.

Frank, of 1044; Youre not alone in that, mate.

Thank you for making us aware.

We lost our beautiful 10 yr old daughter, McKenna, on my 36th birthday to complications after receving her 2nd bone marrow transplant to try to cure her Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She took her last breath on November 27th, 2007 at 5:30pm. This year, November 27th happens to also be Thanksgiving. How cruel is that? How can I possibly give thanks or celebrate a birthday ever again?
The only thing I want to do now is fight for others and raise awareness for other children. Please help us!
https://www.caringbridge.org/mn/mckenna

Thanks for spreading awarness for our children!!

God may bless all these childrens and their families. CRC

Oh my God! i never thought..........................this!!!

You can run programs in the background on your computer to help medical research.

I've found three trying to help cancer research (but not specific to childhood cancer):

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/

The last two do not always generate workunits fast enough to take up all the spare time on most computers. Since all three use BOINC, you can tell your computer to run all three of them; I did. Some computers may need more RAM memory to help them do this without slowing them down for other purposes; mine needed about $50 worth. Also, computers doing this often need up to 50 cents worth of extra electricity a day

Note - I believe the US has restrictions on using computers containing medical records to run such programs, so computers at doctors' offices may not be able to participate.

I feel bad for people with cancer. I bet it is painfull.

Man i feel sorry for thes kids

Quando vedo immagini del genere penso sempre che Dio non possa permettere che delle creature innocenti subiscano tali sofferenze e finisco col non credere più a nulla. Spero solo che ovunque essi siano possano correre, ridere e girare in tondo come è giusto che i bimbi facciano. Spero che le mamme e i papà di quei splendidi bambini trovino la forza per superare il crudele destino che la vita gli ha imposto. E spero che medici, case farmaceutiche e ricercatori trovino presto soluzioni affinchè tali barbarie non debbano mai più accadere.

Thanks you for this article -- and may we all continue to support cancer research and to volunteer in whatever way we can, for all children who are battling cancer. In our part of the world (Philippines), a lot of children also suffer from cancer, and we observe Children's Cancer Consciousness Month in April.

Hi, cool site, good writing ;)

One wonders as I look at these children why a loving God would call these children home so soon. Why do they have to suffer? I pray for a cure dear God.

Very nice site!

Hi folks!

I just want to say hello to you all,
and see you in next posts!

cheers
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that is so sad i would hait that.But i like it that thoes kids are brave and not scared because they are braver then i am.I could not do it.

We sure do need to wipe this disease. I thank God every day for my children health. I also try to help out when I can, and where I can.

Thank you for helping to raise awareness and promoting advocacy. This beast, known as Childhood Cancer, is primarily championed by families who experience it firsthand. We NEED support, advocacy and research. Now! Not just from those of us that are affected by it. Thank you......

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This should be the headlines in every Major newspaper and news show at least once this month. My son is a brain cancer survivor, dx. 2 years ago. He has been through and overcome much more than most adults and with courage and determination. There are so many children fighting with all their might. Childhood Cancer Research should be fully funded. Fight for the Children and young adults.