Support Military Families and Their Fight Against Cancer

The Military Health System’s six pediatric cancer specialty centers provide care that produces high survival rates for children, young adults, and active duty service members with a childhood cancer.

In 2023, patients with a pediatric cancer have about an 80% chance of surviving more than five years. Fifty years ago, childhood cancers were mostly considered incurable.

Pediatric cancers are rare, accounting for only 1-3% of all cancers diagnosed in the United States in a year; however, more than 1,800 children, teens, and young adults lose their lives to cancer each year, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Please help raise funds to purchase necessary supplies and requested toys to donate to the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Child Care team. These items are given to families and pediatric cancer patients, like Liam Dolan, age 10, diagnosed with b-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Luekemia, Sept 2023, to help them as they navigate their road through treatment and recovery.