ACCO, The American Childhood Cancer Association, has been deeply involved with National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month since the first one in 1990. President Bush proclaimed October 1990 as National Awareness Month for Children with Cancer, but it was only for that year and that month. In 2012 Barack Obama issued a proclamation that September would be, then and always, National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month isn’t just for those children who are fighting this horrible disease, but for those who have lost that fight and their families. Cancer takes over a family’s life when even when it’s an adult patient, when it’s a child everything is overturned. Even with organizations like St. Jude who do everything they can to help children battle the disease and remain in good spirits, life outside the hospital moves on, and medical bills continue to crop up.

Survivors who have lost children to this disease are also in need of support, and the ACCO works hard to provide that as well. National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month raises awareness not just of the epidemic that is Childhood Cancer, but at the effects it has on the family that is fighting it right along with the child they love and cherish.

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