Sentences with phrase «impact on childhood cancer»

To further increase Love Your Melon's impact on childhood cancer, the organization has teamed up with CureSearch for Children's Cancer, an organization that funds childhood cancer research and the Pinky Swear Foundation who provide financial support to the families with children battling cancer.

The evidence for cigarette smoke's impact on childhood cancer has been contradictory — some epidemiological studies indicate no added risk, while others show a clear increase for leukemia and lymphomas.

Not exact matches

We also spoke with 2016 School Nutrition Hero Sam Ingram about the impact winning the award had on her efforts to raise awareness — and money — for childhood cancer and cancer research.

It has a positive impact on childhood obesity, infections and allergies, is linked to a lower likelihood of mothers getting ovarian or breast cancers later in life and to a more positive maternal - child relationship.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

NW Mutual is also quite fond of philanthropy, and has its own philanthropic organization, the Northwestern Mutual Foundation, where it focuses largely on making an impact in the prevention of childhood diseases like cancer.

The impact of childhood cancer on the family: A qualitative analysis of strains, resources, and coping behaviors