Blood Cancer facts and statistics

Blood cancers are cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and other parts of the lymphatic system.
Did you know:

• Every 4 minutes, someone in the U. S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
• In 2010, an estimated 137,260 people in the U. S. will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma.
• These new cases of blood cancer will account for almost 10% of all the new cancers diagnosed in the U. S.
• Every 10 minutes, someone in the U. S. dies from a blood cancer...that's 6 people every hour, 148 people every day!
• Leukemia causes about 1/3 of all cancer deaths in children younger than 15 years of age.
• In 2010, 447 children under the age of 15 years were expected to die from leukemia in the U. S.

(data from the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Facts 2010-2011 brochure)