September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

As much as we deplore the existence of cancer, the fact that it has become quite a common disease has made us less surprised whenever we learn about someone we know getting diagnosed with the disease. However, when it’s a child that is diagnosed with the dreaded c, we cannot help but feel an ache in our hearts because we know how painful that would be for a child. A diagnosis would no doubt affect the lives of the child’s parents and relatives.

A good thirty years ago, a long time for many, only half of children with childhood cancer …read more