Quick ride this morning. Facts: Though the 5-year-survival rate for childhood cancers has reached 80 percent, nearly 2,000 kids under age 19 die each year, making cancer the leading killer of children by disease. And that’s just in the United States. In 2016, over 300,000 kids and young adults were diagnosed worldwide. Children’s cancer can’t be treated exactly like adult cancers (where most of federal research funding goes.) Current treatments are toxic, affect a child’s development and can be decades old. To treat childhood cancer in the best way possible, we need to create specialized treatments just for kids. Many childhood cancer survivors in the U.S. suffer from lifelong damage to their organs, mental health and more. We need to understand how treatments affect kids long-term so we can prevent late effects. Source: @childrenscancer #ResearchFund #GreatCycleChallengeUSA #GCCUSA #IGCancerFighters #IRideForBrandi https://www.instagram.com/p/CErgCgfpMxq/?igshid=wymk73kxnkck