@proudmom022: It’s the first day of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Buckle up, it’s time to get uncomfortably aware. My child was diagnosed with stage IV high-risk neuroblastoma on International Neuroblastoma day. Once “neuroblastoma” entered our vocabulary, we learned he’d been born during International Neuroblastoma Awareness Week. Five years later, he died during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. That timeline feels predatory. When he died, he was waiting for a clinical trial he’d already been accepted into. The barrier? Funding. That is what “underfunded” looks like. It looks like promising science chained to a dollar sign while children run out of time. More funding means more research. More research means more trials. More trials mean better drugs, less toxic treatments, and more children who get to grow up. Gold ribbons don’t change survival rates. Research does. #childhoodcancerawarenessmonth #childhoodcancerawareness #childhoodcancer #gogold #morethan4

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Friday 25 September 2026 19:46:32 GMT