International Childhood Cancer Day

Category: Health
International Childhood Cancer Day around the world in 2025
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About International Childhood Cancer Day

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Dates of International Childhood Cancer Day
2026 InternationalFeb 15
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2025 InternationalFeb 15
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Summary
Find out the dates, history and traditions of International Childhood Cancer Day.

International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer and to express support for children and adolescents with cancer, the survivors, and their families.

The day promotes increased appreciation and deeper understanding of issues and challenges relevant to childhood cancer and impacting on children/adolescents with cancer, the survivors, their families, and society as a whole.

It also spotlights the need for more equitable and better access to treatment and care for all children with cancer, everywhere.

This annual event was created in 2002 by Childhood Cancer International, a global network of 176 parent organizations, childhood cancer survivor associations, childhood cancer support groups, and cancer societies, in over 93 countries, across 5 continents.

Do you know?

Every 3 minutes, a child dies of cancer.

Every year, more than 400,000 children and adolescents below 20, are diagnosed with cancer. The rate of survival depends on the region, with 80% survival in most High-Income Countries but as low as 20% only in Low and Middle-Income Countries.

The Target Goal of the WHO Global Childhood Cancer Initiative is to eliminate all pain and suffering of children fighting cancer and achieve at least 60% survival for all children diagnosed with cancer around the world by 2030.

This represents an approximate doubling of the current cure rate and will save an additional one million children’s lives over the next decade.

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