Every 4 minutes one person is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
Every 10 minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer.
That's 145 people each day or more than six people every hour.
With your help, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, is making a difference!
The overall five-year survival rate for children under 15 years old with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) was 3% in 1964 - today it's 90.5%! The five-year survival rate for leukemia has quadrupled in the past 50 years, from 14% to 56.5%. Statistics have shown a significant imrpovement in the five-year survival rates of patients with myeloma during this same time frame - from 12% to 41.1%.
Hodgkin lymphoma is now considered to be one of the most curable forms of cancer. The five year survival rate for a person diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma has more than double fro 40% to 86.3% in the last 50 years. in children and adolescents ages 0 to 14, the five-year survival rate for Hodgkin lymphoma is 95.6%
In children and adolescent from 0 to 19 years, five year survival for non-Hodgkin lymphoma is now 84.7%. This represents a significant improvement: even in the mid-1970s, most children with NHL did not live five years after diagnosis.
Stay tuned tomorrow to hear about the patient services that Team in Training provides.
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