IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 262 
Supporting efforts to raise awareness, improve education, and encourage 
research and treatment of the psychosocial needs of children, adolescents, 
and young adults diagnosed with a childhood cancer and their families. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 10, 2011 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself and Mr. MCCAUL) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting efforts to raise awareness, improve education, 
and encourage research and treatment of the psycho-
social needs of children, adolescents, and young adults 
diagnosed with a childhood cancer and their families. 
Whereas childhood cancer is the number one killer of children 
by disease, more than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, 
congenital anomalies, and pediatric AIDS combined; 
Whereas approximately 2,300 children with cancer die each 
year; 
Whereas childhood cancer results in the fifth highest number 
of life-years lost to any type of cancer; 
Whereas as a result of their cancer treatments, 15 percent 
of children with cancer are diagnosed with anxiety, 10 
percent are diagnosed with depression, 10 to 20 percent 
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are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and 
59 percent of children have a diagnosable mental health 
issue; 
Whereas as many as two-thirds of childhood cancer survivors 
are likely to experience at least one late effect of treat-
ment, including many psychological and social disorders, 
and with as many as one-fourth facing serious or life- 
threatening late effects, including neuro-cognitive and 
psychological, cardiopulmonary, and secondary malig-
nancies; 
Whereas over half of all families with a child, adolescent, or 
young adult diagnosed with a type of childhood cancer 
will file for personal bankruptcy because of the cost of 
fighting the disease; 
Whereas only one new drug has been approved by the Food 
and Drug Administration specifically for any childhood 
cancer in the past 20 years; 
Whereas despite the trauma caused by childhood cancer, 
there is a lack of standardized and coordinated psycho-
social care for the children and their families, from the 
date of diagnosis through treatment and survivorship; 
and 
Whereas while efforts are being made by health care pro-
viders to address the psychosocial needs of children, ado-
lescents, young adults, and their families, there is still a 
great need for more resources: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports efforts that raise awareness about 
all childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers, 
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such as osteosarcoma, brain tumors, and difficult to 
treat childhood cancers; 
(2) encourages the National Institutes of 
Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and 
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration to take steps to address the psycho-
social needs of the children, adolescents, young 
adults, and their families living with childhood can-
cer; 
(3) urges public and private sector health orga-
nizations to take steps to increase physician, nurs-
ing, and other health care providers’ awareness of 
the psychosocial needs of children, adolescents, 
young adults, and their families battling childhood 
cancer, as well as increase access to readily available 
mental health services in support of these efforts; 
(4) urges the Federal Government and the pri-
vate sector to invest in the development of new and 
improved psychosocial and medical treatments and 
therapies for children, adolescents, and young adults 
diagnosed with and surviving cancer; and 
(5) encourages the Federal Government and the 
private sector to devote resources to find better 
treatments for and build awareness of childhood 
cancer and to emphasize the importance of the psy-
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chosocial needs of children, adolescents, young 
adults, and their families battling childhood cancer. 
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