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360 Cycling
Raising awareness and funding
for cancer research and education
Our Mission is to raise awareness and money to help fight pediatric cancer. For 2008 our primary event will be using Race Across America (RAAM) as a
catalyst to raising money for our fight.
Please see the 'Events' link above for more information about the event itself.
- Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in infancy and childhood. It is a neuroendocrine tumor, arising from any neural crest element of the sympathetic nervous system.
Close to 50 percent of neuroblastoma cases occur in children younger than two years old.
- Neuroblastoma is a cancer of the sympathetic nervous system -- a nerve network that carries messages from the brain throughout the body. Its solid tumors, which take the form of a lump or mass, commonly begin in one of the adrenal glands, though they can also develop in nerve tissues in the neck, chest, abdomen, or pelvis.
- Neuroblastoma comprises 6-10% of all childhood cancers, and 15% of cancer deaths in children.
- The annual mortality rate is 10 per million children in the 0- to 4-year-old age group, and 4 per million in the 4- to 9-year old age group.[2]
The highest incidence is in the first year of life, and some cases are congenital. The age range is broad, including older children and adults, but less than 10% of cases occur in people older than 10 years of age.
- After it is declared that the disease is gone, it often comes back. Further treatment is then required. This can be problematic because some treatments, such as chemotherapy, have cumulative effects and side-effects therefore can increase significantly if used again.
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