The Sian Bradwell Endowment Fund has been established to provide a reliable source of funds from which the Hospital can draw to provide priority medical equipment for the Haematology-Oncology department and departments which support it.

DID YOU KNOW ...

• There are about 10,000 children living with cancer in Canada today;
• Each year, about 1500 cases are diagnosed;
• Because of advances in therapy, 78% of these children will survive 5 years
  beyond their initial treatment, an increase of almost 46% since the
  1960s;
• In the early 1950s, less than 10 percent of childhood cancer patients could be cured;
• Leukaemias,  tumours of the brain, nervous/lymphatic system, kidneys, and cancers of  the bones and muscles are the most common forms of childhood cancer;
• In Canada, childhood cancer remains responsible for more deaths than any
  other disease of children from the age of one year through adolescence;
• Leukaemia is the most commonly-diagnosed cancer in children, comprising some 30% of the total new cases diagnosed each year.