Cancer does not discriminate…
In the United State an estimated 15,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer each year. In the U.S., more children die of childhood cancer than any other disease—more than AIDS, asthma, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies and diabetes combined.
Families with children of cancer experience significant expenses due to loss of income because of a reduction or termination of employment, out-of-pocket treatment expenses, and inability to draw on assistance to supplement or replace lost income
Financial assistance for families are often times insufficient. Often parents report that they “make too much money” to qualify for public assistance. These decisions are often made based on the salary of the parent prior to the diagnosis of the child.
The financial strain of having a child with cancer can have long term effects on the family as a whole, the quality of life can diminish due to the physiological, emotional and physical strain on the family unit.
I AM DOM
I AM DOM is named after Dominic Palacio, who we lost on October 20, 2011. We use his name as a symbol by representing every child with cancer and the families that are going through this life altering time. The struggle not only hits the family’s emotion, physically but also financial. The bills don’t stop coming in just because a child was diagnosed with cancer, childhood cancer is financially devastating. Families going through a tremendous amount of stress who are already dealing with the unimaginable.
