09/02/2026
šļø DAY 2 OF 30: 1 IN 285
Line up 285 children.
Children with birthday parties still to celebrate. Children with classrooms waiting for them, sports they love, best friends they cannot imagine living without, and entire futures their families already picture.
Before reaching age 20, approximately one of those 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer. (acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comā ļæ¼)
People call childhood cancer ārare.ā But rare does not feel rare when the child standing in that line is yours.
In 2024 alone, an estimated 14,910 children and adolescents in the United States were expected to be diagnosed with cancer, while approximately 1,590 were expected to lose their lives to it. That means more than 40 young people diagnosedāand more than four families facing an unimaginable lossāevery single day. (cancer.govā ļæ¼)
Each number represents a child whose life was interrupted by scans, needles, surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, hospital rooms, and words no child should ever have to understand. Each number represents parents who would have traded places without hesitationābut could not.
Kinlee was our one. She was diagnosed at nine years old. She had a name, a laugh, a voice, a personality, plans, and an entire life she deserved to live.
She was never just a statistic.
None of them are.
Please read. Please share. Please help us make people see the children behind the numbers.
The Truths About Childhood Cancer
30 Days. 30 Truths.
šļø Her Fight Is Now OUR Fight.
Source: American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute