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September is pediatric cancer awareness month. 🎗

Did you know that the @nationalcancerinstitute (our federally funded government cancer research organization) allots only 3.8% of it's annual budget to ALL 100+ types of pediatric cancers?

That leaves kids to fight cancer with drugs that were approved for use as far back as the 1940s.

That also many some kids to fight without ever being cured.

Over 1,800 children die of cancer in the United States every year.

They don't get national news coverage.

They don't get protesters marching by the thousands in the streets.

They don't get Netflix documentaries.

They don't get the chance to make their presence known to the world on their own because some of them are born with it.

Some of them have their voices taken from them.

DIPG contributes about 300 children to cancer's total annual death toll.

But before that, it robs them.

First, their balance.

Then, their vision.

Next, their coordination.

Already, they're struggling so hard to be a kid and play. But DIPG is not done robbing them yet.

They start to weaken.

They start needing their wheelchair more and more until in the blink of an eye, they're a full time user.

The child who was running and jumping and laughing and singing just a couple MONTHS ago is now a full time wheelchair user who struggles with their cognitive abilities.

The DIPG treatment they receive makes their appearance change so much, and because DIPG usually develops between ages 5-10, the child notices too.

In fact, they still are very aware.

Because that's the other horror of DIPG.

The body fails, but the awareness remains. Their mind hardly changes, but their body takes the greatest hit.

September is pediatric cancer awareness month. Please join us as we fight for a cure! Fight for #MoreThan4 !🎗

#DIPG #faithoverfear #FightLikeAKid #BrainCancer