The hearing will give families, patients, survivors, and others from throughout the United States an opportunity to share their experiences with childhood cancer and insights about how the health care system treats pediatric oncology patients.
Cancer is the number one cause of death by disease for children and adolescents.
This year, an estimated 12,400 children will be diagnosed with cancer and 2,300 will die from it. Each school day 46 children, or two classrooms of kids, will be diagnosed with cancer.