Everyone knows what the pink type of cancer represents. But do you know which cancer the color gold represents? Some people think childhood cancer is rare, and others don't even know that children get it. Some believe that current funding for childhood cancer is geared to the number of cases. But in reality, every three minutes, an innocent child dies of cancer. Additionally, all childhood cancers combined receive very little awareness and funding. With almost no funding, children can't get the medications they need to fight cancer. In order to secure much-needed funding, awareness is extremely important. With less than four percent of all government funding going to cancer, children with cancer need our voices 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 the world, a child will die of 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 more adults than children are diagnosed with cancer each year, a child who dies from cancer will pay a higher price. When an adult dies of cancer, they lose on average ten to twenty years of life. But when a young child dies of cancer, they lose on average seventy to eighty years of life. Furthermore, these children are deprived of their childhood. These children should be playing outside and learning to read and write, not being poked, prodded, poisoned with paper in the middle of paper. However, more funding is needed. And to get the necessary funding, awareness is very important. So if childhood cancer could get your attention and funding, together we could help children fight and survive cancer so they can live long, healthy lives after cancer. Childhood cancers receive an unacceptable amount of government funding for cancer research, less than four percent. Childhood cancer is not uncommon. Every three minutes, somewhere, a child dies from this horrible disease. The fact that the government spends so little on these suffering children is unacceptable. What is also unacceptable is that only two treatments have been developed in the last twenty years for children. But we can help change that. By raising awareness, we can help raise funds to fight childhood cancers. It's time to stand up and be the voice for these children, because children get cancer too..