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Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer.
As the UK's leading children's cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is the only organisation to offer them all round care and support.
CLIC Sargent is there every step of the way : During treatment - providing specialist nurses, doctors, play specialists, Homes from Home In hospital & at home - offering specialist social care and family support in the community - specialist youth services, holidays, grants, helpline After treatment - helping survivors, supporting those bereaved.

Childhood cancer facts

Every 24 hours, ten children and young people are diagnosed with cancer or leukaemia.
Cancer in childhood remains the single largest cause of death in children aged one year or over after accidents.
Cancer and leukaemia (when too many immature white blood cells develop in the blood or bone marrow) are the biggest childhood killer diseases in the UK.
Cancer in childhood (between 0-15 years) is rare. It affects approximately 1 in 600-650 children.
50% of children will be aged under five years at diagnosis.
75% of children will become long-term survivors of their disease - if you take all cancers together.
In the UK 1,500-1,700 new cases are diagnosed each year in children 0-15 years.
A cancer survivor is someone off treatment for one year or more.
A long-term survivor is someone off treatment for five years or more.
30 years ago, only 30% of children were long-term survivors of their disease.
Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer, affecting about a third of children with cancer.
Typical adult cancers, such as lung, breast, colon, and stomach, are extremely rare in children.