Statistics...

Unless otherwise specified, source is National Cancer Institute

In the US:

Incidence Rate:

• One in 330 children will develop cancer by age 20.
• Each school day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer and 10 with some form of sarcoma
• 12,400 children and adolescents younger than 20 years of age are diagnosed with cancer.
• Every year, over 40,000 children are diagnosed with sarcoma around the world. (source: Candlelight)

Survival Rate:

• Approximately 2,300 children and adolescents die of cancer each year, which makes cancer the most common cause of disease-related mortality for children 1-19 years of age.
• Cancer accounts for the greatest number of disease deaths of children in the United States and kills more children per year than cystic fibrosis, muscular
  dystrophy, asthma and AIDS combined.
• Cancer claims twice as many lives as AIDS worldwide. At least 7 million people die of cancer each year and close to 11 million new cases are diagnosed.
• More than 12% of all deaths every year are caused by cancer. That's more than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria put together.

Research reality:

Cancer drugs used on children today are cancer drugs that were developed for adults 30 or 40 years ago.

Last year, The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) federal budget was $4.6 billion. Of that, breast cancer received 12%, prostate cancer received 7%, and all 12 major groups of pediatric cancers combined received less than 3% ...Across all age groups and 50 subtypes of cancer, sarcoma received less than 1%.