Everyone knows what the pink type of cancer represents. But do you know which cancer the color gold corresponds to? Some people think childhood cancer is rare and others don't even know that children get cancer. Some people think that current funding for childhood cancer is adequate for the number of cases. But in reality, every three minutes an innocent child dies from cancer. Not only that, but all childhood cancers combined receive a very small portion of awareness and funding. With very little funding, children cannot get the medicines and medications they need to fight cancer. To get much-needed funding, awareness is extremely important. With less than 4% of all government funding for cancer, children with cancer need our voice to help them get the funding and awareness they need. Too many children die from cancer each year for childhood cancer to go so unnoticed. So, how “rare” is childhood cancer? Every three minutes, somewhere in this world, a child will die from cancer (About Childhood Cancer). In fact, cancer is the leading cause of death among children in the United States. Cancer will take more children than AIDS, muscular dystrophy, asthma and cystic fibrosis combined (A Dozen Awareness Facts). Although there are more adults than children diagnosed with cancer each year, a child who dies from cancer will pay a greater price. When an adult dies from cancer, they lose an average of ten to twenty years of life. But when a child dies of cancer, he or she loses an average of seventy to eighty years of life. Not only that, these children are being robbed of their childhood. These children should play outside and learn to read and write, without being poked, prodded, poisoned with three... half a piece of paper... whenever more funding is needed. And to obtain the necessary funding, awareness is very important. So, if childhood cancer gets your awareness and funding, together we can help children fight and survive cancer to live long, healthy lives after cancer. Childhood cancers receive an unacceptable amount of government funding for cancer research, less than 4%. Childhood cancer is not uncommon. Every three minutes, somewhere, a child will die from this horrible disease. The fact that the government spends so little on these suffering children is unacceptable. What is equally unacceptable is that only two treatments have been developed for children in the last twenty years. But we can help change this situation. By spreading awareness, we can help raise money for childhood cancer. It's time to stand up and be a voice for these children, because children get cancer too.