Welcome to Billy's Page, We hope you'll come away from your visit here with a greater understanding of the World of Childhood cancer. Yes, Billy's Page is about the 'C' word, the BIG C, the Devil's disease; and yes Children get it too.
"Childhood cancer is NOT rare.......Awareness is."
For those of you who have been with us for the past 17 years as we've fought the fight of our lives, Welcome back. For those of you who are new to Billy's Page, and the World of Childhood cancer; please CLICK HERE and open your eye's, as well as your heart, to this terrible disease as you read Billy's story. You'll never look at a bald headed Child the same ever again, I promise you. There are 90 page's that make up the daily, weekly, and monthly update's as Billy fought for his life; as well as hundreds more page's I've authored that include photo's of Billy's surgeries, Dr's, Family and Friends. I have spelled out, in sometimes graphic ways, what it's like living in the "World of Childhood Cancer". As you thumb through the over 525 page's of this web site you'll laugh, cry, gasp, and just be overwhelmed with a new understanding about cancer, and our Children.
If you are sincerly ready to enter the 'World of Childhood Cancer' and follow our journey through it, please CLICK HERE
Here's something to rap your head around:
Chances are that your child will not get cancer....BUT, the odds of your child developing cancer by the age of 19 is approximately 1 in 330. But, cancer is second only to accidents as a cause of death in children. Jan 11, 2018
In the last 40 years, the overall survival rate for children's cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% today, but for many more rare childhood cancers, the survival rate is much less.
1 in 5 of children who are diagnosed with cancer in the US will not survive.
60% of children who survive suffer devastating late effects such as secondary cancers, muscular difficulties and infertility.
There are approximately 375,000 adult survivors of children’s cancer in the United States.
On average, pediatric hospitalizations for cancer cost almost five times as much as hospitalizations for other pediatric conditions. For 2015, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) budget was $4.93 billion. It is anticipated that childhood cancer received ONLY 4% of that sum or $198 million. That's 4 cents out of every dollar in the federal NCI budget. Totally unexceptable. #morethan4 Jan 27, 2017
**NOTE: Please know that this website is a complete re-vision of the previous original website. The 'old' format was outdated and not viewable on all devices so I re-designed the whole site to be more user friendly. Some links to other sources may not work on this new site as most of them are now inactive for one reason or another, but this new website will include ALL of the text entries I made through our journey, so please bare with me (wink). Most, if not all, of the photos that were on the original pages are also 'broken links' so I will try to include them in a photo collage somewhere in the new website, again, bare with me! If you would like to reach out to me please feel free to use my "CONTACT" button located at the bottom right of every page. Also please share this page with as many people that you feel would gain information from it regarding their journey through the 'World of Childhood cancer'.
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Social Media:
Ewings Sarcoma Warriors and Survivors facebook group
Pediatric MDS facebook group
FortySixSeven BLOG
Here you will find some links that are of interest when it come's to our Son's treatment and Childhood cancer in general. We are in no way affiliated with these site's nor are we compensated in any way for posting their links here. If you would like your website linked here please send me the link for consideration.
Ewings Sarcoma, Osteo sarcoma, Chemotherapy, Platelets, hemoglobin, MDS, Limb Salvage Surgery, All Children's Hospital, Moffitt Cancer Inst. (Tampa, Florida)
Childrens Dream Fund, American Childhood cancer Org.
Kids Health, Cancer.net, National Pediatric cancer Foundation, St. Baldricks Foundation, Childhood cancer Canada, Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group UK, Cancer Treatment Resources - Patient & Caregiver Support
Pediatric Cancer Treatment | Children's Health
Counseling. Support Groups. Education. Financial Assistance
Diagnosis-Based Assistance Programs for Childhood Cancer, National Marrow Donor Program US
GCSF, VP-16, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, National Cancer Institute, Cancer Support Community, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Children's Oncology Group, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation, Lucy's Love Bus, Hope Happens Here | Give Hope to a Kid with Cancer, Sunshine Kids, Children's Cancer Center, St. Jude, Go4TheGoal, Jessie Rees Foundation, financial assistance & support, National Childrens cancer Society
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