A report released May 15 finds that:


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• In 2009 there were about 100,000 hospital stays for kids with cancer, representing 4.6% of all kids hospital stays.
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• The hospital stays totaled a cost of about $1.9 Billion, representing 11% of all costs for kids hospitalizations.
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Makes childhood cancer research seem like a bargain; economically and ethically.

To read the entire PAC2 report please visit 
Findings from the Report on Pediatric Cancer Hospitalizations, 2009.

In honor of incredible children and incredible nurses.

12-year-old Cody Green has always admired the strength and courage of the Marines. At 12:35 Saturday afternoon, it was the Marines admiring the strength and courage of Cody.

Cody had leukemia since he was 22 months old, but beat the disease three times. Although he was cancer-free, the chemotherapy lowered his immune system and Saturday afternoon, he died from a fungus that attacked his brain. Members of the Marines decided to step in and do something.

“They decided Cody, with the strength and honor and courage he showed through the whole thing, he should be a Marine,” said Cody’s father David Snowberger.

Cody was given Marine navigator wings and was made an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps. For one Marine, that wasn’t enough, so he did even more.

“The night before Cody passed, he stood guard at Cody’s door at the hospital all night long for eight hours straight,” said Snowberger.

Ugh, more on the ongoing drug shortage. We still think Dr. Adamson nailed it when he said: "I certainly understand that passing legislation is complex, difficult. I suspect, however, that it is no more complex or difficult than curing a child with cancer. And I can absolutely tell you it is no more complex or difficult than what children with cancer face everyday."


WE WELCOME ANY AND ALL childhood cancer organizations to provide information on their foundation by visiting:

http://www.peopleagainstchildhoodcancer.org/page/childhood-cancer-directory.

Once we have collected a representative group of organizations; we will proceed with creation and publication of the directory on the PAC2 website for use by the entire childhood cancer community.  Please share the link with your favorite childhood cancer groups; and if you represent an organization we gratefully appreciate you sharing your information with us!