Modernity and Childhood Cancers

September is known as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. While cancer is a particularly vicious disease you wouldn’t wish on anyone, it is even harder to swallow when the disease afflicts children, even more so that the kinds of cancer that afflict cancer are oftentimes in the “rare” spectrum for adults.

Children’s Cancer Research Fund estimates that in a month, “25,000 families around the world will get the horrible news that their child or teen has cancer” and “6,667 families will experience the loss of a child.”

Over all, the American Cancer Society, …read more