Hello Everyone-
There is a petition to have a childhood cancer awareness stamp put in place. Here is a link to the petition, please take a minute and sign it and forward this to all your friends.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/521710130
Here is the proposal:
As parents whose lives have been forever changed by this disease, we hope that this stamp could be given designation as a symbol for childhood cancer awareness.
By age 20, one child or teen in 330 is diagnosed with cancer. Each year, 12,400 new cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed in the United States. Each school day, 46 children or two entire classrooms of children are diagnosed with cancer. Each day researchers, scientists and physicians come a little closer to finding successful treatments for many childhood cancers, yet approximately 2,300 children and adolescents die each year. More children die of cancer than of any other disease, including asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies and AIDS, combined.
Motivated by the extraordinary success of the breast cancer stamp, the existence of a "Childhood Cancer Awareness" stamp would serve to promote the awareness of this disease that is plaguing our children.
No parent ever wants to hear the words, "Your child has cancer." Yet one in 330 families in the United States are handed this fate. Please help to promote the necessary advocacy for awareness and research that a "Childhood Cancer Stamp" would provide.
Thank you!
