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I want to find out how many kids 18 and under are currently in cancer treatment in michigan. Can anyone help

I want to find out how many kids 18 and under are currently in cancer treatment in michigan. Can anyone help ?
I am starting a non profit for kids with cancer and need this information. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Need info ASAP. THANK YOU!
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You will find that accurate information about these statistics are difficult to impossible to obtain. Much depends on who is reporting and recording this information. We found that with rare and childhood cancers statistics by county and state remain flawed and not current. About the only childhood cancer that is tracted remains Leukemia . .which not surprisingly is the most common and the one that has the best chance for survival. Statistics kept for children and adolescents are not accurate. We found this out when they failed to record any of the information available about our son who died from sarcoma. We had to insist that the records be changed to record exactly the disease he passed away from . . so at least one record is correct (they just recorded he died from 'cancer' and never specified what it was). If you go by what Michigan statistics indicate . . they claim about 300 children are newly diagnosed in a year and about 52 die . . of course this does not account for how many children are currently in active treatment . . it could total up to a thousand. You can check with the NCI SEER Pediatric statistics . .they break some down by state . . however the statistics are dated. http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/childhood/ A good resource to contact for this type of information may be the Michigan chapter of the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation: http://www.candlelightersofmichigan.org/



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